Nirmal Chaudhari brings a silver medal to the team!

Congrats to Nirmal Chaudhari for his silver medal in the undergrad ACM Student Research Competition held at MODELS’24 earlier this month!

Nirmal started as a summer intern at McSCert, working on a different project related to source code composition. He accepted to stay with us as a research assistant during his third year, joining the jPipe team to work on the compiler.

In his single-authored paper titled Pipelines Have Feelings Too: A Structured Way To Design CI/CD Pipelines, Nirmal showcased his work on composition operators, by defining (i) pattern instantiation and (ii) justification merging as a way to support the incremental definition of large justification models. He also implemeted the first version of the jPipe IDE, reusing the LEVER framework designed at McSCert by Alexandre Lachance.

Congratulations Nirmal!

Fun fact! The initial version of the work done on justification models was presented by Corinne Pulgar at the 2022 edition of the competition. Corinne won the bronze medal in the graduate category for her work on justification models at that time!