Thalia Archibald
PhD student
University of Utah
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github.com/thaliaarchi
@[email protected] (Mastodon)
Curriculum vitæ
I am a PhD student at the University of Utah, researching compiler verification with John Regehr. My current work involves extending Alive2, a translation validator for LLVM, to verify more complex programs.
I also research software history, particularly of early UNIX and regular expression engines. I was involved in recovering UNIX V4 and am on the The Unix Heritage Society team, working to release other distributions.
I contribute to open source projects, including the Rust standard library, jq and jqjq, and Git.
Blog
- 19 May 2026: Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C
- 15 Apr 2023: Coq typeclass resolution is Turing-complete
Publications
- 19–23 July 2026: UNIX V4 and the Utah Teapot, SIGGRAPH 2026