About Me

I’m a computer science undergraduate at UCLA. I’m learning systems and programming languages techniques so I can create tools that eliminate bugs and improve performance in everyday software. I’m currently working with Prof. Konstantinos Kallas and PaSh to make dynamic languages fast — shell and python.

Feel free to get in touch at my email: me [at] bolun [dot] dev!

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News & Updates

• June 2026
  Won first place in the undergraduate division of the PLDI '26 Student Research Competition for Pync! 🏆 I also volunteered.
• June 2026
  Attended the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, where I studied Rocq and separation logic.
• Feb 2026
  Attended SoCal PLs Day to talk about Pync, a function level incremental execution system for Python scripts!
• Sep 2025
  Back to university! 🎓
• Sep 2025
  Attended the fifth PaSh Research Workshop at Brown! I heard lots of cool talks about shell scripts and presented my own project.
• June 2025
  Started my summer research position at UCLA!

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Publications

• hS: Speculative Script Reordering at Subprocess Granularity.
  Georgios Liargkovas, Di Jin, Tianyu Zhu, Dan Liu, A. Bolun Thompson, Anirudh Narsipur, Seong-Heon Jung, Siddhartha Prasad, Diomidis Spinellis, Michael Greenberg, Konstantinos Kallas, Nikos Vasilakis. OSDI '26.
• Pync: Function Level Incremental Execution for Python Scripts.
  A. Bolun Thompson. PLDI 2026 Student Research Competition.

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Education

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Experience