Colin McDonald
University of Notre Dame
Class of 2023
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Philosophy
Natural Language Processing Group
My broad research interests include programming languages, type theory, quantum computing, NLP, and formal logic. I'm particularly fascinated by dependent type systems, linear type systems, and characterizing effects in functional programming languages. I'm starting a CS PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2023!
You can check out what I've been up to recently on my GitHub page.
Publications
Exact Recursive Probabilistic Computing.
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Chiang, McDonald, Shan. In Proc. of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2023.
Chiang, McDonald, Shan. In Proc. of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2023.
Syntax-based attention masking for neural machine translation.
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McDonald and Chiang. In Proc. NAACL Student Research Workshop. 2021.
McDonald and Chiang. In Proc. NAACL Student Research Workshop. 2021.
Strong Functional Pearl: Harper's Regular-Expression Matcher in Cedille.
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Stump, Jenkins, Spahn, McDonald. In Proc. of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2020.
Stump, Jenkins, Spahn, McDonald. In Proc. of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2020.
Elaborating Inductive Definitions and Course-of-Values Induction in Cedille.
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Jenkins, McDonald, Stump. Preprint. 2019.
Jenkins, McDonald, Stump. Preprint. 2019.
Awards
2023 NDSEG Fellow2023 NSF GRFP Awardee (declined — NDSEG)
2020 Gilman Scholarship Awardee (declined — COVID-19)
2019 U.S. Presidential Scholar
TA Experience
Fall 2022: CSE 40431 - Programming LanguagesSpring 2022: CSE 30151 - Theory of Computing