Yearbook · all 53 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '15

53 graduates · cited 714× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

FlashMeta: a framework for inductive program synthesis

cited 111× within PLDB · Polozov & Gulwani

Valedictorian

Finding deep compiler bugs via guided stochastic program mutation

Most Influential OOPSLA Paper (awarded 2025) · Le et al.

Late Bloomer

Incremental computation with names

half of its 18 citations came 7+ years after it graduated · Hammer et al.

Teacher's Pet

Performance problems you can fix: a dynamic analysis of memoization opportunities

cites 10 other OOPSLA papers · Toffola et al.

Biggest Group Project

Protocol-based verification of message-passing parallel programs

7 authors · López et al.

Class Clown

Scrap your boilerplate with object algebras

“scrap your…”, a classic bit · Zhang et al.

Prom Couple

Scalable race detection for Android applications & Stateless model checking of event-driven…

cited together by 5 papers · Bielik et al.; Jensen et al.

Ghosted

Nobody.

Every paper in the class has been cited within PLDB. Wholesome.

pldb.kirancodes.me/fun/yearbook · within PLDB

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Citations are between papers within PLDB, one per pair, newer versions of the same paper excluded. Late Bloomer needs 5+ citations; Ghosted is hidden for the last three classes, who are still being read. Older classes have thinner citation data.