Nicolas Wu

Biography

Nicolas Wu obtained his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, where he also studied as an undergraduate at Brasenose College. He is an experienced programmer, and spent several years in industry working with Haskell, C++, and Java, before finally settling in academia as a researcher in the field of functional programming. His research interests are centred around programming languages, where he has made advances in applications of category theory for giving the semantics of programs and algorithms. In particular, his recent work has been focused on showing the connections between domain specific languages, effect handlers.

Research Interest

Dr Nicolas Wu is interested in the theory and application of Programming Languages. He is an expert in the field of Functional Programming, with a specialist knowledge of recursion schemes and effect handlers.