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<h1>Hi!</h1>
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I'm Tom Smeding. I love programming, doing math, playing the piano and thinking about languages (both natural and programming).<br>
I'm a PhD candidate in computer science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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You can reach me on
<a href="https://matrix.to/#/@tom:tomsmeding.com">Matrix</a>,
<a href="https://libera.chat/">IRC</a>,
<a href="https://telegram.me/tomsmeding">Telegram</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/tomsmeding">Github</a>,
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-smeding">LinkedIn</a>,
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/tom.smeding">Facebook</a> and
via <a href="mailto:t.j.smeding@uu.nl">email</a>,
among others.
Besides Github, I also have a number of projects on my <a href="https://git.tomsmeding.com">own server</a>.
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I've also <a href="/blog">written some notes</a> at some point.
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<details><summary><u>For a list of my academic publications, click here.</u></summary>
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<h2>My research</h2>
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Currently my primary research interest is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation" target="_blank">automatic differentiation</a> (AD), as seen through the lens of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming" target="_blank">functional programming</a> (FP), in my case mostly using the programming language <a href="https://haskell.org" target="_blank">Haskell</a>.
My PhD supervisors are Gabriele Keller and Matthijs Vákár.
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In general I am enthusiastic about lots of things in computer science; I enjoy functional programming and thinking about programming techniques that make FP work well, but I also have some experience in more low-level programming (in C and C++), some of it in <a href="https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/5681" target="_blank">competitive</a> <a href="https://2019.nwerc.eu/" target="_blank">programming</a>.
I like thinking about how to optimise code to make it run faster, and also about devising compiler optimisations to make other people's code run faster.
Furthermore, I like being able to do all of those things while enabling the compiler to prevent me from making mistakes as much as possible; typically, I do this by using the type system of the programming language I'm working in.
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Also send me your favourite esolangs :)
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