Giovanni Campagna

I'm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

Contact information

Gates Building, Room 407
353 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA, 94305
, , Twitter: @gcampax Blog: gcampax.blogspot.com (rarely updated) GPG key

Current projects

I am currently a member of the Mobisocial Computing Lab, working with prof. Monica Lam on the Almond project, an open source privacy aware virtual assistant for IoT and social media.

Code for Almond is available on Github. You can download the Android App on Google Play

Research Interests

• Programming languages
• Compilers and runtime systems
• Program synthesis and code generation
• Natural language understanding
• Distributed systems
• Internet of Things
• Taking a little bit of everything and making a better whole! 😄

Publications

• Almond: The Architecture of an Open, Crowdsourced, Privacy-Preserving, Programmable Virtual Assistant
  G. C., Rakesh Ramesh, Silei Xu, Michael Fisher and Monica S. Lam
  in Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference 2017, Perth, Australia, 2017.
• A Distributed Open Social Platform for Mobile Devices
  Monica S. Lam, G. C., Jiwon Seo and Michel Fischer
  Presented at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems 2016
• Efficient communication and collection with compact normal forms
  Edway Z. Yang, G. C., Omer S. Agacan, Amhed El-Hassany, Abishek Kulkarni and Ryan R. Newton
  in Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming.

Free Software

I have been a developer and a member of the GNOME community since 2011. In the past I was developing GNOME Shell and Mutter. I currently maintain libgweather and GNOME Weather. Some of the software I develop is hosted in my GNOME Web space.