Zane Fink

PhD Candidate | Parallel Programming Laboratory | UIUC

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Welcome to my web page. I’m Zane, a PhD student in Computer Science and graduate research assistant in the Parallel Programming Laboratory.

My PhD research is guided by the question: how can we make novel programming technologies, such as approximate computing and adaptive runtime systems, more accessible to application developers? To that end, I design abstractions and implement them in programming models and runtime systems that ease programmer burden and increase performance in this era of extreme heterogeneity.

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Mar 18, 2026 Our paper “Characterizing the Performance and Usability of GPU JIT Compilation Interfaces using Proteus” accepted to ISC-HPC’26
Feb 01, 2026 Presented a tutorial on Proteus JIT Compilation for HPC at CGO’26
Dec 16, 2025 Serving on CCGRID’26 program committee
Sep 18, 2025 Our paper “Embracing Dynamism: Control State Serialization for High-Performance Python” accepted to HiPC’25
Aug 04, 2025 Joined LLNL as a Postdoc