Cyrus Omar designs intelligent user interfaces for modern programming languages.

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
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.

RustViz: Interactively Visualizing Ownership and Borrowing

The Rust programming language achieves memory and thread safety using a static ownership and borrowing analysis. This has led to explosive adoption, but learning Rust remains challenging. We are developing RustViz, a system that makes learning Rust easier by visualizing the invisible static state changes that occur within Rust code. See the RustViz tutorial.

References

VL/HCC 2022
Marcelo Almeida, Grant Cole, Ke Du, Gongming Luo, Shulin Pan, Yu Pan, Kai Qiu, Vishnu Reddy, Haochen Zhang, Yingying Zhu, Cyrus Omar
# 1st Jan 2020••education, rust, rustviz
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