Physics simulations are widely used in areas including sci- ence research, mechanical design, and video games production. These applications are usually computa- tionally intensive in nature. Although modern day compilers can perform several optimizations on common code patterns to increase software performance, they are usually una- ware of data structures, cache size, and other factors, providing limited optimizations to more complicated computations. The compiler group at CSAIL has developed a programmable system that recognizes specific computation processes. With this system, programmers can develop fast physics simulation software. Specifically, I will work on code gener- ation and optimizations for this system.

I have worked at CSAIL Computational Fabrication Group on computa- tion intensive algorithms for the graphical functionalities of 3D printers, and in fact, they are some important applications of the system being developed in this Super UROP. I also interned at Treyarch and my tasks included performance engineering and working with a parser. With years of experience using C/C++. I have solid understanding of the lan- guage down to the assembly level.