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Recommendation Letter for Han-ku Leefrom Dr. Bryan Carpenter
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Dr. David Bryan Carpenter
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
111 College Place
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
Phone: (315) 443-5068
FAX  : (315) 443-1973
email: dbc@npac.syr.edu

Recommendation for Han-ku Lee

Dear Colleague,

As a research scientist and project leader at Northeast Parallel
Architecture Center, I have directly supervised Han-Ku Lee in activities
related to our research group since June 1998.  He has worked as
Graduate Resarch Assistant in the group since he became a Ph.D. student
in January 1999.  He has been very closely involved with the development
of the HPJava translator.  This translator is a principle component
of the work on our HPspmd  programming model---work funded by
a 3-year NSF grant that will transfer to Florida State University in the
near future.

When he first joined our group Han-Ku Lee worked closely with Dr Guansong
Zhang on the front-end for the HPJava translator.  This is based on the
JavaCC parser-generator tool from JavaSoft.  With no previous background
in this area, and working as an independent study student, Han-Ku quickly
learnt the principles of compiler front-end design and contributed
several vital components to the parsing and AST generation modules.

After Dr Zhang left to work at IBM, Han-Ku worked with me and one
other graduate student to complete development of the front-end and
translation modules.  One focus of Han-ku's work at this stage was on
semantic checking.  He developed from scratch a type-checking module for
our extended Java language.  This incorporates a full type-checker for
the base language, taking account of the interplay between overloading,
inheritance relations and promotions---fundamental in object-oriented
programming.  The type analysis is extended to incorporate the
multidimensional distributed arrays of HPJava.

More recently Han-Ku has worked on completing the Java interface to an
existing run-time library for data-parallel languages, developed at NPAC
in earlier HPF-based projects.  Han-ku is now our main expert on the
Java Native Interface (JNI) interface to the Adlib run-time library.
Additionally he has been gradually taking over the maintenance and
development of the translation module of the HPJava compiler, and has
been maintaining the test suite for the system, which drives further
development.  Recently he has been working on testing the complete system.

After eighteen months working on the HPJava project (since before it
was formally funded by NSF) Han-Ku has become the main implementor and
maintainer of the system.  I believe his continued contribution is almost
essential for its successful completion.

Han-Ku has also actively participated in a study group I have been running
with several students, in which we have been studying more general
material related to compilers for parallel computers.  Han-ku has
led a many of these sessions.

Han-ku is very enthusastic, highly talented, and a valuable researcher,
who has a critical role in the ongoing HPJava project.

Yours sincerely,

Bryan Carpenter
Research Scientist NPAC
Ph.D. Westfield College London 1984