Sam Westrick

Sam Westrick is an Assistant Professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also earned his PhD in 2022.

• Research Focus: Provably efficient implementations of high-level parallel programming languages, with key contributions in parallel garbage collection, automatic granularity control, and functional language design
• Teaching: Currently teaching CSCI-GA.3033-121: Programming Parallel Algorithms at NYU; was a TA for CMU courses 15-210 and 15-122

His work includes the development of MaPLe (MPL), an open-source parallel functional language with performance comparable to C/C++. Notable awards include the SIGPLAN Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award (2023) and best/distinguished paper recognitions at QCE'24, POPL'24, and others.

Selected Publications explore topics like quantum circuit simulation, cache coherence specialization, and separation logic for disentanglement. Active in conference service as ML Family Workshop chair and PLDI/SPAA committee member.

• Mentoring: Advises PhD students, master's and undergraduate researchers at NYU and CMU
• Collaborators: Umut Acar, Guy Blelloch, Stephanie Balzer, and 20+ others