Jens PalsbergProfessor

Jens Palsberg is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests span the areas of compilers, embedded systems, programming languages, software engineering, and information security. He is the editorin-chief of ACM Transactions of Programming Languages and Systems, a member of the editorial board of Information and Computation, a former member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and a former conference program chair of ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), the Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), Conference on Embedded Systems Software (EMSOFT), Conference on Formal Methods and Programming Models for Co-Design (MEMOCODE), ACM Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE), and Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS). In 2012 he received the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award.