Lukas Lazarek
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Lazarek is a programming-languages researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience building data-driven methods to evaluate the practical utility of language features and tools. Currently a postdoctoral research associate at Brown after completing a PhD at Northwestern, he blends experimental empirical methods with robust software development to study contract systems, gradual typing, and how non-experts can productively use programming. His work uniquely connects language design to real-world programmer behavior through controlled data collection and analysis, and he has translated research insights into reusable tooling and reproducible experiments. Past internships and research roles show a consistent pattern of improving team practices—introducing version control and containerization, launching data-collection pipelines, and winning a student research competition for a compiler extension—demonstrating both technical depth and practical impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern University
English, German
Github Skills (22)
code-golf9
racket8
stack-based8
scheme8
gradual-typing7
polyglot7
mojo7
language-design6
shell5
driver5
drracket5
programming-language5
minor-mode5
emacs4
databus4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LLazarek/webgrep
Feb 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
LLazarek/llazarek.github.io
Nov 2015 - Dec 2025
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 2 months
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