Yearbook · all 76 papers

pldb yearbook

PLDI Class of '19

76 graduates · cited 889× within PLDB

Most Likely to Succeed

Gen: a general-purpose probabilistic programming system with programmable inference

cited 45× within PLDB · Cusumano-Towner et al.

Valedictorian

Optimization and abstraction: a synergistic approach for analyzing neural network robustness

Best Paper (one of 6 award winners) · Anderson et al.

Late Bloomer

An applied quantum Hoare logic

half of its 31 citations came 6+ years after it graduated · Zhou et al.

Teacher's Pet

Resource-guided program synthesis

cites 16 other PLDI papers · Knoth et al.

Biggest Group Project

Renaissance: benchmarking suite for parallel applications on the JVM

12 authors · Prokopec et al.

Class Clown

Parser-directed fuzzing

shortest title in the class: 23 characters · Mathis et al.

Prom Couple

Model checking for weakly consistent libraries & Robustness against release/acquire semantics

cited together by 7 papers · Kokologiannakis et al.; Lahav & Margalit

Ghosted

1% of the class (1 of 76)

never cited within PLDB. No names. We're not monsters.

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

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