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The Functional Programming Group at the University of Kansas apply and extend functional programming technologies to the diverse areas of building computer systems, high-performance computing, information assurance, virtual reality and telemetry. We use functional programming to bring clarity to descriptions of what we want to compute, and computer language technologies to provide efficiency and assurance. Typically, we collaborate with other research groups, deploying our technology and bringing our research and development expertise to work on our collaborators' open issues, as well as their assurance and performance needs.

Research Thrusts

• Reification and Homoiconicity: We are developing tools for parallelism that use novel compiler technology for high-performance computing
• Embedded Systems: We are working on an Arduino compiler, and a Next Generation Kansas Lava.
• Virtual Reality: We are exploring using VR for teaching, debugging, and (with KU athletics) sport simulators.

Group Composition

The Functional Programming Group at the University of Kansas is led by Andrew Gill. The group operates inside the Computer Systems Design Laboratory (CSDL), at ITTC, in Nichols Hall on west campus.

Recent Activities

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FPG Alumni

Year
2018	Justin Dawson (PhD), Mark Grebe (PhD)
2017	Liia Butler (BS), Brandon Caudell (BS)
2016	Jackson Montgomery (BS), Aditya Kumar Ravikanti (MS), Mohammed Ziauddin (MS)
2015	Andrew Farmer (PhD), Rama Krishnamoorthy (MS), Ryan Scott (BS), Moiz Virani (MS)
2014	Jan Bracker (MS Exchange), Adam Howell (BS)
2013	Robert Blair (BS), Patrick G Flor (BS), Neil Sculthorpe (PostDoc)
2012	Patrick Miller (BS)
2011	Tristan Bull (MS), Kevin Matlage (MS), Garrin Kimmell (PostDoc), Brandon Smith (BS)

Visitors and Visits

These are people who have visited the lab. If you want to visit KU, email Professor Gill.

Who	When	From
Brent Yorgey	July 2015	Hendrix College
John Peterson	Mar 2015	Western State Colorado University
Laurence E. Day	Oct 2013	University of Nottingham
Anders Persson	Oct 2011	Chalmers
Simon Thompson	June 2011	University of Kent
Jun Inoue	Oct/Nov 2010	Rice University

We also occasionally leave the lab.

Who	When	Length	Visiting
Professor Gill	Fall 2017-	Ongoing	[Google] X, The Moonshot Factory
Andrew Farmer	Fall 2014	3 months	Facebook (London)
Professor Gill	Fall 2013	2 weeks	Distinguished Visitor Fellowship (Scotland)
Andrew Farmer	Spring 2013	6 months	Portland State University (Oregon)

Joining the Group

If you are already at KU

New members are always welcome, however, at the graduate level you will need some experience in Haskell, for example, via EECS 776. Email Professor Gill for a discussion, explaining why functional programming is something you are interested in exploring.

If you are not already at KU

If you are not at KU, and are not planning on applying to KU, then please outline how you know Haskell, or another functional language. The lab does not offer scholarships to outside students, though we have people join from other graduate programs from time to time. Template requests for sponsorship without FP specifics will be deleted without acknowledgement.

Common Misunderstandings

• We are not a software engineering group. We use functional languages to solve problems, which may have a software engineering component.

• There are no funded research openings right now.

Collaborations and Other Activities

CDSL at ITTC also hosts the System Level Design Group (SLDG), lead by Perry Alexander, who also uses functional programming for system engineering, and with whom we collaborate closely.

SLDG and FPG jointly run the LAMBDA reading group for anyone that is interested, discussing topics related to programming and specification languages, semantic models, and programming paradigms.

We have an IRC group, #ku-csdl, on irc.freenode.net. We also use a subreddit, /r/csdl/, and use github https://github.com/ku-fpg/.