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Alex Potanin

Dr Alex Potanin

Senior Lecturer,
School of Engineering and Computer Science

Phone: +64 4 463 5302
Email: address
Office: CO262, Cotton Building, Kelburn Campus - Postal Address
Nearest Fax: +64 4 463 5045

Teaching in 2012

COMP 103 - Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms
Course Coordinator

COMP 261 - Algorithms and Data Structures
Course Coordinator

COMP 303 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Course Coordinator

SWEN 430 - Compiler Engineering
Course Coordinator

Research Interests

My research interests are:

Ownership and Immutability,
Object Oriented Programming Languages,
Type Systems,
Software Engineering

Please see my personal web site for more information including links to publications, possible projects for students, and much more.

Publications

For a complete list of my publications, please see the Publications Database.

Biography

I am originally from Moscow, Russia with a background in Mathematics. I have completed my PhD in programming languages in 2006 and took up a job as a Lecturer in Software Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington. During my studies I took short breaks to work as a Visiting Researcher at Purdue University, and Software Engineer at two Wellington start-ups.

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My Research Diary
Library Of Alex Potanin
My PhD thesis was supervised by James Noble, Dave Clarke, and Robert Biddle. In my thesis I described a way of having ownership types in a programming language with generics: Generic Ownership.
My hobbies at some stage included Wellington Seido Karate Club and Wellington Gliding Club.

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Special Interest Groups
Agile
HCI
Prog. Languages