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 CAPRA research group and is advised by Adrian Sampson. His research interests include programming languages and systems design. He previously worked in the PLASMA research group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with Arjun Guha.

Interests

Programming Languages
Hardware Programming

Education

PhD in Computer, 2018 - Present

Cornell University
BSc in Computer Science, 2015 - 2018

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

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