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.

Tylr: Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations

Parse errors are a pain for beginners and experts alike. The Tylr project eliminates parse errors (!) by automatically tracking syntactic obligations and materializing them as holes and other affordances. This benefits both humans and downstream tooling.

References

OOPSLA 2025
David Moon, Andrew Blinn, Thomas J. Porter, Cyrus Omar
VL/HCC 2023
David Moon, Andrew Blinn, Cyrus Omar
TyDe 2022
David Moon, Andrew Blinn, Cyrus Omar
# 1st Jan 2021••structure-editing, tylr
Loading recent items...