Manas Thakur
Office: CC 308 (New CSE Building)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400 076, Maharashtra, India
Email: manas@cse.iitb.ac.in
Phone (intra): 7739
Research Interests: Program analysis, Compiler optimizations, Programming languages
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Recent work:
Memory Optimizations for OO Languages [CGO 2026, OOPSLA 2025, PLDI 2024]
Staged Analysis for JIT Compilers [FMSD 2024, SAS 2022, SPLASH-C 2022, OOPSLA 2019, TOPLAS 2019]
Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Languages [OOPSLA 2023, VMIL 2023]
Context-Sensitive Pointer Analysis [Onward! 2020, CC 2020, CC 2019]
Functional and Parallelizing Transformations [Scala 2025, CASCON 2022, ECOOP/ISSTA 2021, ECOOP/ISSTA 2021]
Highlights @CompL
Arjun and Bhavya's paper is accepted for publication at CGO 2026.
CompL @ IICT 2025: Aditya and Meetesh giving talks; Preet presenting a poster.
Aditya receives the George B. Fernandes Excellence in PhD Research Progress Award.
Aditya's paper is accepted for publication at OOPSLA 2025.
Shiv, Shrikha and Heemmanshuu's submission gets accepted at Scala 2025.
New CompLers from Autumn 2025: Anirudh, Aneeket, Kavya, Vedant, and Sania.