# Research Interests

My research interests include programming languages, persistent memory (NVM),
dynamic program analysis, and data race detection.

I am currently working on novel methods for providing efficient persistent
transactions with strong guarantees. Our work uses non-volatile memory, such as
Intel Optane Memory, combined with commodity hardware transactional memory to
allow programs to survive power interruptions and crashes, with minimal
performance and scalability impacts.

# Publications

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## Crafty: Efficient, HTM-Compatible Persistent Transactions
<div class="authors">Kaan Genç, Michael D. Bond, and Guoqing Harry Xu</div>
<div class="conf">ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation <a href="https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home">(PLDI 2020)</a>, Online, June 2020</div>

[Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdVLlQXV1to) [Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3385412.3385991) [Extended Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00262.pdf) [Implementation](https://github.com/PLaSSticity/Crafty)
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## Dependence Aware, Predictive Unbounded Predictive Race Detection
<div class="authors">Kaan Genç, Jake Roemer, Yufan Xu, and Michael D. Bond</div>
<div class="conf">ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications <a href="https://2019.splashcon.org/track/splash-2019-oopsla">(OOPSLA 2019)</a>, Athens, Greece, October 2019</div> 

[Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgZWnc31tVQ) [Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3360605) [Extended Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.13088.pdf) [Implementation](https://github.com/PLaSSticity/SDP-WDP-implementation)
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## SmartTrack: Efficient Predictive Race Detection
<div class="authors">Jake Roemer, Kaan Genç, and Michael D. Bond</div>
<div class="conf">ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation <a href="https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home">(PLDI 2020)</a>, Online, June 2020 </div>

[Paper](http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bond.213/vindicator-pldi-2018.pdf) [Extended Paper](http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bond.213/vindicator-pldi-2018-xtr.pdf)
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## High-Coverage, Unbounded Sound Predictive Race Detection 
<div class="authors">Jake Roemer, Kaan Genç, and Michael D. Bond</div>
<div class="conf">ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation <a href="https://pldi18.sigplan.org/">(PLDI 2018)</a>, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 2018</div>

[Paper](http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bond.213/vindicator-pldi-2018.pdf) [Extended Paper](http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bond.213/vindicator-pldi-2018-xtr.pdf)
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# Teaching Experience

During Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters, I had the opportunity to teach the
class [CSE
2451](http://coe-portal.cse.ohio-state.edu/pdf-exports/CSE/CSE-2451.pdf),
Advanced C Programming, at the Ohio State Univerity. The class had around 35
students enrolled for both semesters. I was given the full responsibilities for
the class, including teaching the class, writing assignments and exams, grading,
and holding office hours. I revised the course material I was given, making it
more comprehensive and adding unique insights on building and optimizing
advanced C programs.

The students were satisfied with my teaching, with my Student Evaluation of
Instruction mean scores being 4.6 and 4.4 out of 5 for both semesters, a score
above the university mean for classes of similar size.

# Activities

[OOPSLA 2020](https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Artifacts) Artifact Committee member



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# Other stuff

<a class="img" href="https://seriousbug.itch.io/the-land-itself">
![A picture from a 3-D video game, showing a river flowing into the sea. The text "The Land Itself" is overlayed on the sea.](/img/game-cover.jpg)\
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On my free time, I develop small indie video games and release them open source.
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