Prof. Lionel PARREAUX Received Distinguished Artifact Award at ECOOP 2026 and Distinguished Paper Award at ACM SIGPLAN ICFP 2026

Prof. Lionel PARREAUX, Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), and his students recently received two awards at international conferences.

Distinguished Artifact Award at the 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)

Prof. Parreaux and his former PhD student Dr. CHENG Luyu (Class of 2026) received a Distinguished Artifact Award at the 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, an honor that is awarded to only the top 10% of accepted artifacts. Their winning paper is titled “A Simple Recipe for Writing Decent Recursive Descent Parsers (Pearl)”.

ECOOP is Europe’s longest-standing annual programming languages conference, focusing on all topics related to programming languages, software development, systems and applications. The 2026 conference was held in Brussels, Belgium, from June 29 to July 3.

Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming 2026 (ICFP)

Prof. Parreaux and his PhD student LAM Chun-Kit, in collaboration with Dr. Florent FERRARI-DOMINGUEZ from ENS de Lyon, France, received a Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming 2026. Their winning paper is titled “First-Class Constrained Types: Elaboration, Type Inference, Approximation, and a Characterization of Termination”. The award recognized the top 10% of accepted papers.

ICFP covers the full range of work on functional programming languages, from theory and design to implementation, applications, and experience. The 2026 edition took place in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, from August 24 to 29.

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