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Sam Westrick
Faculty

Sam Westrick is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Courant where he leads the ParCour group and also is a member of ACSys. His research focuses on making it simpler and safer to develop efficient and scalable parallel software.

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Seong-Heon Jung
PhD Student

Seong-Heon is a PhD student advised by Prof. Sam Westrick. He works on parallel language runtimes with a focus on scheduling. He aims to power convenient parallel primitives and abstractions through innovative and, at times hacky, runtime techniques.

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Sundara (Vishnu) Satish
PhD Student

Vishnu is a PhD Student advised by Prof. Sam Westrick. His research is centered around developing programming languages techniques integrated with runtime systems to enable safer and easier to reason parallelism with strong, provable performance guarantees.

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Ariel Uy
PhD Student

Ariel is a PhD student advised by Prof. Sam Westrick. They are interested in reasoning about the safety and performance of compilers. Ariel previously worked on compiler development at Annapurna Labs.

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Atharva Sharma
PhD Student

Alumni

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Darshan Dinesh Kumar
Master's Alumnus

Darshan graduated from NYU in 2026 and completed a master’s thesis: Performance Analysis and Debugging of Parallel Programs within Lightweight Scheduling Frameworks. He currently works at Nvidia.