Zachary D. Sisco
I am an incoming assistant professor of computer science in the School of Data Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shenzhen. I will join in fall 2025 and am actively recruiting
students!
I conduct research at the intersection of Programming
Languages and Computer Architecture. My
research integrates formal methods into open-source languages for chip
design to increase developer agility with correctness guarantees.
Conference and Journal
Publications
- Control Logic
Synthesis: Drawing the Rest of the OWL (ASPLOS 2024)
Zachary D. Sisco, Andrew David Alex, Zechen Ma, Yeganeh
Aghamohammadi, Boming Kong, Benjamin Darnell, Timothy Sherwood, Ben
Hardekopf, Jonathan Balkind
(Source code repo)
- Loop Rerolling
for Hardware Decompilation (PLDI 2023)
Zachary D. Sisco, Jonathan Balkind, Timothy Sherwood,
Ben Hardekopf
(Source code
repo)
- A
semantics-based approach to concept assignment in assembly code
(ICCWS 2017)
Zachary D. Sisco, Adam Bryant
- Modeling
information flow for an autonomous agent to support reverse engineering
work (JDMS 2017)
Zachary D. Sisco, Patrick Dudenhofer, Adam Bryant
Workshop Papers
- There and Back Again: A
Netlist’s Tale With Much Egraphin’ (LATTE 2024)
Gus Henry Smith, Zachary D. Sisco, Thanawat
Techaumnuaiwit, Jingtao Xia, Vishal Canumalla, Andrew Cheung, Zachary
Tatlock, Chandrakana Nandi, Jonathan Balkind
(Web
demo)
- Semi-Automated Translation of a Formal
ISA Specification to Hardware (PLARCH 2023)
Harlan Kringen, Zachary Sisco, Jonathan Balkind,
Timothy Sherwood, Ben Hardekopf
- On the Generality of Matrix Multiplication (PLARCH
2023)
Andrew Alex, Zachary D. Sisco, Jonathan Balkind
- A
Position on Program Synthesis for Processor Development (LATTE
2022)
Zachary D. Sisco, Jonathan Balkind, Timothy Sherwood,
Ben Hardekopf
(Source code
repo)
Thesis
Little Projects
Photography
- Photo albums:
I’ve recently gotten into film photography. I shoot on an old Olympus Trip 35 —
mine was manufactured in Japan around October, 1973.