I'm a PhD candidate at the Software Composition Group, University of Bern since 2007.

My main research interest revolves around reflective languages and their interpreters. At the moment I'm working on Pinocchio, a fully open but safe reflective system for language experimentation. Initially it bootstraps to a Smalltalk-like language.

Projects

• Pinocchio: An open system for language experimentation
• SchemeTalk: A Smalltalk-style OO system as extension to and written in Scheme
• Spy: Squeak VM implemented fully in RPython (PyPy)
• PyGirl: A whole-system virtual machine written in RPython (PyPy)
• Fame: Meta-modeling framework available in multiple languages

Activities

• Participant at Casta '09
• Participant at Tools Europe '09
• Reviewer for RAM-SE '09
• Reviewer for ECOOP '09
• Assistant for the Compiler Construction course, Fall '08
• Presented FAME, A Polyglot Library for Metamodeling at Runtime at Models@run.time - Toulouse '08
• Participant at ESUG - Amsterdam '08
• Participant at Self-Sustaining Systems - Potsdam '08

Students

Current

• Camillo Bruni is looking into techniques for optimally building reflective VMs, as a part of Pinocchio.
• David Gurtner is working on making Pinocchio fit for running ActiveContext, and helping Erwann Wernli to further define the ActiveContext model

Past

• Sandro De Zanet has used genetic algorithms to generate PEG parsers for code (master).
• Camillo Bruni has used PyPy to build PyGirl (bachelor)
• Daniel Langone worked on reengineering parsers from Eclipse plugins to extract facts (bachelor)