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.
10 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 (37)
racket9
code-golf9
scheme9
mojo8
stack-based7
polyglot7
data-handling6
benchmarking6
programming-language6
benchmark6
hierarchical6
gradual-typing5
bus5
drracket5
c115
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LLazarek/mutate
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Inject bugs into your programs!
Contributions:39 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
LLazarek/llazarek.github.io
Nov 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:110 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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