Cyrus Omar designs intelligent user interfaces for modern programming languages.

Cyrus Omar (he/him)
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
On sabbatical, 2026–27 🆕
Visiting Fellow
Energy and Environment Group
University of Cambridge
4624 BBB
comar@umich.edu
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CV

Education

Carnegie Mellon University
PhD, Computer Science
UIUC
BS, Computer Science
BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Advising

PhD Students

Research Staff

Masters and Undergraduates

There are 10+ masters and undergraduate researchers in FP Lab — see the FP Lab webpage!

Former Advisees

FP Lab alum also include 200+ undergraduate and MS students, 15 of whom went on to PhD programs!

Service

2026
PLDI PC · PROPL Chair · VL/HCC PC · HATRA PC · LMPL PC · PLMW @ SPLASH Speaker · SPLASH SRC Judge · CSE Course Review Committee
2025
POPL PC · VL/HCC PC · GPCE PC · ML Family Workshop PC · HATRA PC · LIVE PC · CSE Curriculum Innovation Committee
2024
OOPSLA PC · VL/HCC PC · Onward! PC · LIVE PC · SPLASH-E PC · HATRA Publicity Chair · CSE DEI Committee
2023
PLDI PC · ECOOP PC · VL/HCC PC · MWPLS Co-chair · TyDe SC Chair · ECOOP Area Chair (Brave New Ideas and Pearls) · HATRA PC · IFL PC · SPLASH-E PC · SPLASH SRC · PLMW @ ICFP Panelist · CSE DEI Committee · CSE Hosting Committee

For older service roles, refer to my CV.

Awards and Honors

I lead the Future of Programming Lab (FP Lab), part of the vibrant MPLSE research community.
I am on sabbatical at the University of Cambridge for 2026–27, as a Visiting Fellow in the Energy and Environment Group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology and an Associate Scholar at Pembroke College.

ChatLSP: Semantically Contextualizing AI Programming Assistants

We are integrating modern language implementations (i.e. language servers) with modern AI coding assistants. We are finding dramatic performance improvements when AI models are properly contextualized by programming language semantics (e.g. types, live run-time information, and structured/destructured task contexts)!

References

OOPSLA 2024
Statically Contextualizing Large Language Models with Typed Holes
Andrew Blinn, Xiang Li, June Hyung Kim, Cyrus Omar
VL/HCC 2022
An Integrative Human-Centered Architecture for Interactive Programming Assistants
Andrew Blinn, David Moon, Eric Griffis, Cyrus Omar
ICFP 2020
Program Sketching with Live Bidirectional Evaluation
Justin Lubin, Nick Collins, Cyrus Omar, Ravi Chugh
# 1st Jan 2023••ai, chatlsp, typed-holes
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