ParCour is a research group in the Computer Science Department at NYU Courant, located in the 60 Fifth Ave building in Manhattan. Our research spans a number of topics related to programming languages, parallel computing, compilers, runtime systems, and parallel algorithms.

News

• Jun 11, 2026

  We have two papers this summer:

  • (Best Paper Award!) Scheduler Augmentation: A Lightweight, Customizable, Low-Cost Profiling Technique for Fork-Join Parallel Programs — Sam Westrick, Darshan Dinesh Kumar, and Seong-Heon Jung. SPAA 2026.
  • A Separation Logic for Parallel Time Complexity with Work and Span Credits — Alexandre Moine, Sam Westrick, and Joseph Tassarotti. ICFP 2026.
• Jan 14, 2026

  We had two papers at POPL 2026:

  • (Distinguished Paper Award!) All for One and One for All: Program Logics for Exploiting Internal Determinism in Parallel Programs
  • TypeDis: A Type System for Disentanglement
• Jan 10, 2026

  Vishnu will give a (remote) talk at CACHP’26 on January 31: Adaptive Loop Unrolling for Automatic Parallelism Management

• Dec 5, 2025

  Seong-Heon gave a talk at NJPLS on our ongoing project: DePa*: Parallel Order Maintenance for Structured Futures

• Oct 9, 2025

  Sam, Seong-Heon, and Vishnu will be in Singapore for ICFP / SPLASH 2025.

• Sep 2, 2025

  Seong-Heon and Vishnu start as PhD students at Courant.