Isil Dillig

UTCS is hiring in all areas, including PL! Please DM me if you are on the job market this year and interested in joining our wonderful department :)

We are looking forward to receiving your publications!

Moshe Vardi nails it in this article: cacm.acm.org/opinion/big-... Big Tech owes much of its success to decades of public investment in research, which is now under serious threat. Please speak up in whatever way you can: reach out to your representatives, write an op-ed, post, share...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

3/3 If you’ve built a company, a career, or a product on top of that system, now is the time to speak up -- before the damage is irreversible.

2/3 Now, with Congress moving to slash NSF funding, that very foundation seems to be at risk. CISE, which is the directorate that funds core computing research, is facing a 65% cut. The U.S. research ecosystem cannot survive cuts like this.

Isil Dillig on X: "1/3 The US didn’t end up leading the world in computing by luck. It happened because it made long-term, public investments in basic research, especially through NSF. That’s what created the technology that today’s companies are built on." / X 1/3 The US didn’t end up leading the world in computing by luck. It happened because it made long-term, public investments in basic research, especially through NSF. That’s what created the technology that today’s companies are built on.

1/3 The US didn’t end up leading the world in computing by luck. It happened because it made long-term, public investments in basic research, especially through NSF. That’s what created the breakthroughs that today’s tech companies are built on.

It's been a real honor and privilege to be your PhD advisor
Shankara Pailoor and Ben Mariano! I am truly so proud of everything you both have accomplished.

The FY26 budget slashes NSF by 55%, which directly threatens basic research in the United States. Please call your reps NOW and tell them to reject these cuts and protect science funding. You can find them here: www.congress.gov/members

For folks interested in C-to-Rust translation, we put together a benchmark suite you can evaluate on!

Wow, there is an account called penguins against Trump 😂

For formal methods folks looking for a new position: @VeridiseInc is hiring a formal methods researcher to work on verification/analysis tools targeting zero-knowledge applications. More details are here: veridise.com/careers/zk-r...

Oh, that grant started a while ago, and the main PI is Armando at MIT. For an Expeditions project, it needs to be very ambitious and interdisciplinary and bring together people who would not otherwise get a chance to work together.

Opinion | Eric Schmidt: I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China. (Published 2020) We can’t win the technology wars without the federal government’s help.

I hope congress takes note. www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/o...

Galapagos diving YouTube video by Işil Dillig

Diving in the Galapagos islands last week was really fun but **very very** cold! Some videos here: youtu.be/-s61EuteC6c

Oops, should be fixed now?

Self-nominations are most welcome :)

@andersmoeller.bsky.social and I are co-chairing OOPSLA'26 and soliciting PC nominations. If you'd like to serve on the OOPSLA PC next year or know anyone (e.g., recent graduate) who you think would do a good job, please nominate them here: forms.gle/NVnzjcmbshoL...

RTFM 2024 - : Red-Hot Topics in Faculty Mentoring - PLDI 2024 We believe our community has come a long way in acknowledging that junior researchers need as much mentoring as they can get to prepare them for future jobs and help them succeed. The PLMW workshop se...

There was such a workshop at PLDI: pldi24.sigplan.org/home/rtfm-20... I’m sure people would be happy to share their slides and material from that workshop

Matt Gaetz - Personalized videos on Cameo Matt Gaetz on Cameo! Cameo lets you request a personalized video message for any occasion.

This is hilarious: www.cameo.com/mattgaetz

Nice sunset over Pennybacker Bridge

Tis the season :-) My cat tree is finally here

Does it have other good recipes too? I might give it a try!

CAV (International Conference on Computer Aided Verification) is now also on Bluesky!
Please follow @confcav.bsky.social and help us spread the word.

I never carry it either when they accept credit cards

Just realized that the currency in Ecuador is the US dollar! Don’t even need to get different currency for my upcoming trip :)

Wonderful new hiking trail I discovered in Austin! (Emma Long cliff loop)

I actually don’t know. I’ll let you know if it is :)

Excited to visit Columbia next week!

Interesting read. We’ll see how this unfolds in the coming weeks