Fabian Muehlboeck (Fabian Mühlböck) PhD, Cornell University, 2019 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Australian National University
School of Computing CSIT Building, N217

About Me

I am interested in improving the design and implementation of industrial general-purpose programming languages. I am interested in static type-checking and how to reduce the burden that it places on its users, both language designers and programmers. Most of my work focuses on gradual typing in object-oriented programming languages, but I am also interested in interactions of parsing and type checking from a language-design perspective, and in black-box runtime verification techniques that exploit unused hardware resources.

Starting in 2025, my research in Gradual Typing will be supported by an ARC DECRA grant!

Before joining the ANU, I was a postdoc in Tom Henzinger's group at ISTA. Prior to that, I obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University (advised by Ross Tate), an M.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University (advised by Mitchell Wand), and a BSc in Software and Information Engineering from TU Wien (advised by Franz Puntigam).

Projects

Research Projects

See all publications or browse the projects below.

Gradual Typing

Making sound, efficient, and well-behaved gradual typing practical for a new generation of industrial programming languages. Read more!

Type-System and Language Design

Improving the design of popular language features, particlarly for object-oriented languages. Read more!

Semantics of Partial Programs

Formally looking at programming language design with respect to tools like IDEs, making them more usable and easier to implement. Read more!

Run-Time Monitoring

Gaining more confidence about black-box programs from untrusted vendors. Read more!

Students

Interested in doing research with me? Look at the projects above or at the school's Project Website. I am also recruiting PhD students!

Current Students

Chethin Weerakkody (Honours Thesis)
Sophie Press (Honours Thesis)
Xinjie Xu (Research Project)
Alex Mirrlees-Black (Research Project)
Michael Ostapenko (Research Project)

Awards

Distinguished Reviewer (OOPSLA 2019 Artifacts)
Distinguished Paper Award (OOPSLA 2017)
Facebook Fellowship Finalist (2015, 2017)
Teaching Award, Cornell University (2014)
Teaching Award, Northeastern University (2013)
Yiannis Tsiounis Scholarship (2012)
Fulbright Exchange Grant (2011)

Teaching

Teaching at ANU

COMP 2120/6120 (Software Engineering) [S2 2024]
COMP 1110/6710 (Structured Programming) [S1 2024]
COMP 3160/6361 (Principles of Programming Languages) [S2 2023]

Other Activities

Research Community

Organizer of SAPLING 2024
Program Committe Member for MPLR 2024
Review Committee Member for OOPSLA 2024
Organizer of SAPLING 2023
ERC Member and Artifact Reviewer for OOPSLA 2023
ERC Member and Artifact Reviewer for ECOOP 2023
Organized Doctoral Symposium at SPLASH 2022
ERC Member and Artifact Reviewer for OOPSLA 2022
Reviewed Artifacts for ECOOP 2018 and OOPSLA 2019
Organized Cornell PL Retreats 2015 and 2017
Student Volunteer at PLDI 2017 and PLDI 2018

Outreach

Expand Your Horizons (Cornell)
Zoom a Scientist (ISTA)

Hobbies

I spend most of my non-CS time playing board- and computer games that ideally are either about trust between players or building a large economy (or both). I bake cakes, and I like skiing and hiking.