Matteo Basso

Matteo Basso is a researcher at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, specializing in compiler design, virtual machines, and WebAssembly technologies. His work bridges high-level programming languages with efficient execution on modern hardware platforms, with a strong focus on practical systems that improve performance and efficiency.

His research interests include:

• WebAssembly and its applications in web and server environments
• Compiler optimization techniques for virtual machines
• Memory management and binary serialization formats
• Performance analysis of programming language runtimes
• Java Virtual Machine enhancements and thread management

Matteo's publication record shows consistent contributions to top-tier conferences including SPLASH, OOPSLA, and CGO, with recent work emphasizing WebAssembly technologies and Java performance optimization. His research on heap management, native-image startup performance, and compiler-level profiling demonstrates practical impact in language implementation.

Notable contributions include:

• Heap snapshot matching using context-augmented heap-path representations
• Improvements to native-image startup performance in GraalVM
• Optimization-aware compiler-level event profiling techniques
• Analysis of Java Vector API performance characteristics

As an active open-source contributor, Matteo maintains several popular repositories including asm-dom (a WebAssembly virtual DOM implementation with 2.8k stars) and awesome-wasm (a curated WebAssembly resource list with 9.4k stars).