Dan Grossman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington where he has been a faculty member since 2003. Grossman completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University and his undergraduate studies at Rice University. His research interests lie in the area of programming languages, ranging from theory to design to implementation, with a focus on improving software quality. In recent years he has focused on better techniques for expressing multithreaded programs, particularly using languages with well-defined support for transactional memory. In prior work, he focused on type-safe systems programming using the Cyclone language, which he developed with colleagues.
Grossman has served on over twenty conference and workshop program committees in addition to co-chairing the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT PASTE workshop and the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN TRANSACT workshop. He currently serves on the ACM SIGPLAN Executive Committee and the ACM Education Council. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award and two "Teacher of the Year" Awards voted on by his department's undergraduates.
In his spare time, Dan can be found playing ice hockey (poorly), bicycling, hiking, or enjoying good food, beer, and theatre. Dan has never had a cavity.
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Last updated: June 2011