Abhinav Jangda
Senior Researcher at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhinav Jangda is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond with a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and 14 years of experience bridging programming languages, systems, and high-performance computing. His research focuses on designing abstractions and domain-specific languages that let computational scientists and ML practitioners harness high-performance hardware without sacrificing expressiveness or performance. He has a strong publication record across top venues (ASPLOS, OOPSLA, TOPLAS, PPoPP) and has earned both an ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award and a PACT Best Paper Award. Practically minded, he pairs research with hands-on engineering—contributing full-stack improvements to projects like Browsix (a Unix-like OS for the browser) and UI work in Kivy—showing a rare blend of systems, front-end, and performance tuning skills. Based in Redmond, he repeatedly translates theoretical ideas into usable tooling and benchmarks, including SPEC integration work that highlights his attention to real-world evaluation.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
DAV Public SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstMathematics and Computing, Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi
Github Skills (11)
html10
javascript10
nodejs10
ui-design10
python10
kivy10
gulp9
android5
ios5
macos4
windows4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
plasma-umass/browsix
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Browsix is a Unix-like operating system for the browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Abhinav primarily focused on enhancing the project's functionality by integrating a performance testing framework. They added a server script for the SPEC benchmark and updated the build process to copy and include the necessary binaries. Additionally, the user implemented an HTML application for the SPEC benchmark, showing front-end development. These changes involved modifications to both the server-side code and the build configuration using gulp, indicating full-stack proficiency.
operating-systemunixbrowserfsunix-likejavascript-framework
kivy/kivy
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:UI/UX Developer
UI/UX DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Abhinav primarily contributed to the Kivy UI framework by implementing and modifying UI components. Their work included improvements to existing examples, adding new widgets like the ActionBar, and fixing bugs. These changes involved updating the Kivy language (kv) files and modifying the Python code to enhance the functionality and appearance of various UI elements, including adjustments to image paths.
androidioslinuxmacospython
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