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#53 RustBelt, Iris, and the Art of Writing - Derek Dreyer

#53 RustBelt, Iris, and the Art of Writing - Derek Dreyer

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Derek Dreyer is a professor at the Max Planck Institute, in 2024 he was awarded the ACM Fellowship, in 2017 he got the ACM Sigplan Robin Milner Young Researcher Award. And has participated or lead greatly influential work, such as the RustBelt Project and Iris.

In this episode Derek shares his experience going to Grad School at CMU, how even a great research as himself has fallen pray to the impostor syndrome and how to cope with it. Throughout the conversation he makes beautiful parallels between music and academic papers, and how the work of a researcher is similar to that of an artist an many aspects. He also gives us a few tips about how to become a better academic writer. And of course, we also talked about Rust and the history about formally verifying its type system.

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Links
  • Derek's Website
  • POPL '25 PLMW Talk - How to Read Papers so that People Can Read Them
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