Jens Palsberg

Jens Palsberg is a Professor and former Department Chair of Computer Science at UCLA. He directs the UCLA-Amazon Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence and co-directs UCLA's quantum research center (30+ faculty). He co-founded UCLA's Master's program in quantum science and serves as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. His research spans programming languages, software engineering, and quantum computing.

He has received the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (2012) and a UCLA teaching award (2023). As ACM Council member and former SIGPLAN chair, he has led 100+ program committees (POPL, PLDI, ECOOP) and conferences (General Chair for POPL, LICS, SPIN).

Current initiatives include quantum programming research, optimizing compilers for quantum circuits, and developing concurrency analysis tools. His team focuses on quantum abstract interpretation and logical bytecode reduction.