About

I am currently an undergraduate CS major at the University of Virginia.

Things Emergent of Free Time:

Some of my open source projects:

• Gajure – a genetic algorithm framework written in Clojure
• A text and document clustering tool, written in Haskell
• Finite Automata Libraries, for both Ocaml and Haskell
• Clogger – a blog framework written in Clojure and Compojure

Ideas I have played with that might be considered “researchish” hacks:

• Neural networks — Yes, I too have implemented XOR.
• Computational music composition — A long time ago, this went nowhere.

(And just for the record, hacker news is awesome.)

Academic Stuff:

Papers

• Ethan Fast, Claire Le Goues, Stephanie Forrest, Westley Weimer: Designing better fitness functions for automated program repair. Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO) 2010 (to appear)

Presentations/Talks

• GECCO 2010, Designing better fitness functions for automatic program repair [slides]

Past and present research projects:

• How mutational robustness relates to automatic program repair with GP (current)
• Repair templates for automatic program repair
• Build a better fitness function for program repair with genetic algorithms
• Hardening programs against security vulnerabilities using genetic programming techniques.
• Test case selection for automated program repair with genetic programming.