Roly Perera

NEWS

5 July 2023: Effects and Effect Handlers for Programmable Inference conditionally accepted to Haskell Symposium 2023.
3 July 2023: Accepted a 5-year Early Career Advanced Fellowship at Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge! Working with Dominic Orchard and Jeremy Yallop.
19 June 2023: My student Min was awarded a 2-year EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship!
19 June 2023: Intern Piotr Kozicki joined us today to work on probabilistic programming and automatic differentiation.
5 June 2023: Intern Harleen Gulati joined us today to work on prettyprinting for Fluid.
22 May 2023: Co-supervising PhD student Joe Bond with Cristina David.

past news

1 February 2023: Research Pump Priming award from Faculty of Engineering.
23 September 2022: Web chair, Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering 2023.
14 September 2022: Min presented Modular Probabilistic Models via Algebraic Effects at ICFP 2022.
1 September 2022: Started as Research Fellow at University of Bristol.
22 May 2022: Modular Probabilistic Models via Algebraic Effects conditionally accepted to ICFP 2022.
25 April 2022: Invited talk, Programming Languages and Systems research group, University of Kent.
20 January 2022: Presented Linked Visualisations via Galois Dependencies at POPL 2022.
7 December 2021: Data-Linked Visualisations was funded by the Turing's AI for Science and Government programme.
28 September 2021: Linked Visualisations via Galois Dependencies was accepted to POPL 2022.
26 August 2021: My student Minh Nguyen won the ICFP 2021 Student Research Competition!
24 August 2021: Gave a Turing talk on Refactoring-driven software engineering in Python (slides).
9 August 2021: I'm now the Research Engineering liaison for the AI for Science and Government programme.
20 July 2021: Programme committee for Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL) 2022.
12 December 2020: Review committee for The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal, Volume 6.
16 October 2020: Programme committee for TaPP 2021 (Theory and Practice of Provenance).
1 May 2020: I am now the Research Engineering Challenge Lead for the Tools, Practices and Systems theme.
30 January 2020: Programme committee for BX 2021 (Bidirectional Transformations).
10 February 2020: Programme committee for COP 2020 (Context-Oriented Programming and Advanced Modularity).
10 January 2020: I am now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Jean Golding Institute, University of Bristol.
With Brian Hempel I will be organising the LIVE 2020 workshop (hopefully located with SPLASH 2020, Chicago).
Programme committee for Convivial Computing Salon, co-located with ‹Programming› 2020, Porto.
Programme committee for Programming Experience 2020 workshop (PX/20), co-located with ‹Programming› 2020, Porto.
1 September 2019: Accepted a permanent senior position in the Research Engineering team at The Alan Turing Institute!
Talk abstract accepted to Incremental Computation 2019 workshop.
Programme committee, Onward! Essays, Athens.
Programme committee, CON 2019, London.
Programme committee, TaPP 2019, Philadephia.
Co-chair (with Luke Church and Jonathan Edwards), LIVE 2019.
2 January: started a new postdoc at The Alan Turing Institute, as researcher/co-investigator on the Data Science Toolkit for Explorable Data Visualisations, working with Tomas Petricek.
My paper Cartesian Creatures: Watching Ourselves Watching the World will appear in Journal of Consciousness Studies, March/April 2019.
Takuya Niikawa, Max Jones and I will edit a special issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies containing selected papers from the Designed Mind symposium. The theme of the special issue will be “consciousness as self-representation”.
Programme committee, PX/19, Genova.
Programme committee, ICLC 2019, Madrid.
Attended NII Shonan meeting on Self-supporting, Extensible Programming Languages and Environments for Exploratory, Live Software Development, 25-28 February, Japan.
Our paper Incremental Relational Lenses was accepted to ICFP 2018, St. Louis.
Programme committee, AGERE! 2018.
Co-chair (with Ravi Chugh and Jonathan Edwards), LIVE 2018.
Presented at Problems and techniques for Incremental Re-computation: provenance and beyond workshop. slides
Programme committee, PX/18.
PC chair and co-organiser (with Takuya Niikawa, Max Jones and Aïda Elamrani-Raoult), Designed Mind symposium.
Co-chair, NOOL 2017 (with Alex Potanin and Tobias Wrigstad).
Programme committee, ICLC 2017
Programme committee, LIVE 2017
Programme committee, ICLC 2016
Co-chair, NOOL 2016 (with Tobias Wrigstad)
Programme committee, LIVE 2016
Co-organiser, CoCo:PoPS (with J. Garrett Morris and Dimitrios Kouzapas), June 2015
Programme committee, FPW 2015
Programme committee, ICLC 2015
Programme committee, FPW 2014
Co-organiser, SPLS (with Sam Lindley), October 2013