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Mike Hicks is a Professor in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and an Amazon Scholar.
Mike’s research explores programming languages and security. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, and prior Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Programming Languages.
From 2002-2021, Mike was Professor at the University of Maryland, where we co-founded and directed the laboratory for Programming Languages research (PLUM). From 2022-2025 he was a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services where he co-led the development of the Cedar authorization policy language.
Mike is the founder and former editor in chief (2019-2021) of PL Perspectives, the SIGPLAN blog. He currently blogs at the Programming Languages Enthusiast and writes occasionally on LinkedIn.
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