Pavel Panchekha
I am Pavel Panchekha. I apply programming languages techniques to web browsers and numerical analysis at the University of Utah.
News: The Herbie team has a publication at ASPLOS'25 on our new target-specific backend.
Web browsers
I research web browser internals. Past projects include:
I am writing a textbook on web browsers, which inspires a lot of these projects.
Automated numerics
I also work on automatic numerical analysis. Past projects include:
- Automatic accuracy improvement
- Synthesis via term rewriting
- Scalable static accuracy analysis
- Automatic program tuning
- Compution over the reals
- Math library implementation
I lead the FPBench and Herbie projects, where a lot of my research is deployed.
Students
I am currently advising Marisa Kirisame (PhD), Bhargav Kulkarni (PhD), Artem Yadrov (MS), Zane Enders (BS), Jackson Brough (BS), Jesus Ponce (BS), Jonas Regehr (BS), and Garrett Brothers (BS).
I have previous advised or mentored Ian Briggs (PhD), Cooper G. Coradeschi (BS), Yash Lad (MS), Pranav Shenoy (MS), Yuvaraj Chesetti (MS), Ayushi Sharma (MS), Oliver Flatt (BS), Nathan Davis (MS), Skyler Griffith (BS), William Shupe (MS), JJ Garzella (BS), David Thien (BS), Adam T. Geller (BS), Jason (Chen) Qiu (BS), Alex Sanchez-Stern (BS).