Rachit Nigam

PhD Student

Cornell University

Biography

Rachit Nigam is a PhD student studying computer science at Cornell University. He is a part of the PL@Cornell and CAPRA research groups and is advised by Adrian Sampson. He leads the Dahlia project and is interested tools and languages for hardware design. He previously worked in the PLASMA research group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with Arjun Guha.

News

Sep 2019 - I gave an invited talk on Dahlia at Princeton.
May 2019 - I was an research intern at Facebook Reality Labs.
March 2019 - I volunteered for the PLDI 2019 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
Nov 2018 - I was a student volunteer at OOPSLA 2018.
May 2018 - Stopify appeared at PLDI 2018.

Selected Publications

Putting in All the Stops

Execution Control for JavaScript

Bringing debugging abstractions to the web using first-class continuations in JavaScript.

Sam Baxter, Rachit Nigam, Joe Gibbs Politz, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Arjun Guha

Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (2018)

PDF Code Video Website

Publications

Predictable Accelerator Design with Time-Sensitive Affine types
Rachit Nigam, Sachille Atapattu, Ted Bauer, Adrian Sampson, Zhiru Zhang • Under Submission (2019)
Preprint Code Slides Website

Putting in All the Stops Execution Control for JavaScript
Sam Baxter, Rachit Nigam, Joe Gibbs Politz, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Arjun Guha • PLDI (2018)
PDF Code Video Website

Fission: Secure Dynamic Code-Splitting for JavaScript
Arjun Guha, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Rachit Nigam, Rian Shambaugh, Jane Tangen • SNAPL (2017)
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Recent Posts

Project Management for PhD Students

PhD student considers pivoting to mangerial positions.

Mar 3, 2019 6 min read

Learning to Fail

Naive PhD student explains how to succeed at research.

Dec 19, 2018 5 min read

PhD @ Cornell: The Free Agent system

PhD student tries to justify his life choices.

Dec 15, 2018 4 min read