Scott Rixner
Professor at Rice University
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolScott Rixner is a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University with over 15 years of experience researching the intersection of hardware and software, focusing on virtualization, operating systems, memory systems, and networking. He designs system software that better leverages modern hardware and prototypes hardware that simplifies system software, a dual approach that has produced 11 patents and multiple open-source implementations. An expert in language internals, he has built Python interpreters for embedded systems and web browsers and contributed core fixes to the widely used Skulpt JavaScript Python implementation. Trained at MIT (BS, MEng, PhD in EE/CS), he blends deep academic rigor with practical engineering, frequently moving ideas from lab prototypes into real-world systems.
15 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
python10
lexical-analysis8
interpretation8
code-analysis8
syntax8
syntax-checking8
bytecode8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
skulpt/skulpt
Jul 2012 - Mar 2021
Skulpt is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:526 commits, 84 PRs, 45 pushes in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on implementing and fixing core Python and JavaScript language features within the Skulpt project, specifically those related to built-in functions and object handling. The user's contributions include resolving issues with string formatting, ensuring correct behavior of set methods, and implementing core functionalities. The work involved modifying and expanding core language components such as methods for integers and complex numbers.
javascriptprogramming-languagepythonskulpt
rixner/skulpt
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Skulpt is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 261 pushes in 9 months
javascriptprogramming-languagepythonskulpt
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.