Christa Jenkins

About

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Postdoctoral associate at Stony Brook University, working with Omar Chowdhury. Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, advised by Dr. Aaron Stump.

Research interests are programming language theory, dependent types, applications of formal methods to security, inductive definitions, and elaboration. CV.

Locations

Papers

  • Monotone Recursive Types and Recursive Data Representations in Cedille

    Jenkins, Christa and Stump, Aaron. J. MSCS (2021)

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  • Simulating large eliminations in Cedille

    Jenkins, Christa and Marmaduke, Andrew and Stump, Aaron. Submitted to postproceedings of TYPES 2021

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  • Zero-cost Constructor Subtyping

    Marmaduke, Andrew and Jenkins, Christa and Stump, Aaron. IFL 2020

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  • Strong Functional Pearl: Harper's Regular-Expression Matcher in Cedille

    Stump, Aaron and Jenkins, Christa and Spahn, Stephan and McDonald, Colin. ICFP 2020

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  • Efficient lambda encodings for Mendler-style coinductive types in Cedille

    Jenkins, Christa and Stump, Aaron and Diehl, Larry. MSFP 2020

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  • Quotients by Idempotent Functions in Cedille

    Marmaduke, Andrew and Jenkins, Christa and Stump, Aaron. TFP 2019

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  • Spine-local Type Inference

    Jenkins, Christa and Stump, Aaron. IFL 2018

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Dissertation

  • Elaborating Inductive Definitions in the Calculus of Dependent Lambda Eliminations

    Ph.D. thesis, 2023 (The University of Iowa)

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Unpublished

  • Elaborating course-of-values induction in Cedille

    Jenkins, Christa and Firsov, Denis and Diehl, Larry and McDonald, Colin and Stump, Aaron. (2020)

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Reports

  • Elaborating inductive definitions in Curry-style polymorphic type theory

    Comprehensive exam report (2020)

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  • Bidirectional type inference in programming languages

    Qualifying exam report (2018)

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