Yearbook · all 171 papers

pldb yearbook

OOPSLA Class of '26

171 graduates · cited 15× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Scylla: Translating an Applicative Subset of C to Safe Rust

cited 3× within PLDB · Fromherz & Protzenko

Valedictorian

Transitive, Abstract, and Class Polymorphic Immutability

Distinguished Paper (one of 5 award winners) · Xiong et al.

Teacher's Pet

Understanding and Finding JIT Compiler Performance Bugs

cites 11 other OOPSLA papers · Yi et al.

Biggest Group Project

A Tale of 1001 LoC: Potential Runtime Error-Guided Specification Synthesis for Verifying Large-Scale Programs

12 authors · Wang et al.

Class Clown

When Do Staging Annotations Preserve Semantics? Mechanizing Typed Semantics-Preserving Multi-stage Programming with Let-Insertion

asked the room a question · Tan & Wei

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‹ Class of '25 (2025)

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.