About

I’m currently a PhD student in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism at the University of Edinburgh.

I work on typed, communication-centric functional programming languages. I’m currently working with session types on the ABCD project, supervised by Sam Lindley and Philip Wadler. More generally, my research interests include programming languages, session types, dependent types, and functional programming.

In the past, I have been an intern at IntelliFactory, where I worked on WebSharper UI.Next. I did my MSc by Research at the University of Edinburgh, and my BSc at the University of St Andrews.

Contact

Feel free to get in touch: you can reach me at simon.fowler -at- ed.ac.uk or simon -at- simonjf.com.

Recent Blog Posts

Session types in programming languages—a collection of implementations

Research

Drafts

Fowler, S., Lindley, S., Morris, J. G., and Decova, S. Session Types without Tiers. Draft, March 2018.

Conference and Workshop Papers

Fowler, S., Lindley, S., and Wadler, P. Mixing Metaphors: Actors as Channels and Channels as Actors. ECOOP 2017.
- LIPIcs
- Long version
Fowler, S. An Erlang Implementation of Multiparty Session Actors. ICE 2016.
- EPTCS
Fowler, S., Denuziere, L., Granicz, A. Reactive Single-Page Applications with Dynamic Dataflow. PADL 2015.
- Springer
Fowler, S. and Brady, E. Dependent Types for Safe and Secure Web Programming. IFL 2013.
- ACM

Dissertations and Project Reports

Monitoring Erlang/OTP Applications using Multiparty Session Types. MSc by Research Thesis, University of Edinburgh; 2015.
Verified Networking using Dependent Types. BSc Project Report, University of St Andrews; 2014.

Miscellaneous

First-class Distributed Session Types, ICFP Student Research Competition, 2nd Place (Graduate Category)
- Poster
- Extended Abstract

Events

Scottish Programming Languages Seminar (SPLS), 11th October 2017 (co-organised with Craig McLaughlin)
Scottish Programming Languages Seminar (SPLS), 21st October 2015 (co-organised with Sam Lindley and James McKinna)