Education
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PhD in Computer Science (2018–2023)
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USAAdvisor: Jan Vitek
Readers: Amal Ahmed, Giuseppe Castagna, Arjun Guha, Benjamin C. Pierce Thesis: Decidable Subtyping of Existential Types for the Julia Language.
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MS in Computer Science and Information Technologies (2012–2014)
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, RussiaAdvisor: Stanislav Mikhalkovich
Thesis: Модель концептов в императивном языке программирования (A model of concepts for an imperative programming language).
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BS in Computer Science and Information Technologies (2008–2012)
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, RussiaAdvisor: Stanislav Mikhalkovich
Thesis: Автоматическое построение ограничений в модельном языке программирования с шаблонами функций и автовыводом типов (Automatic constraints collection in a programming language with generic functions and type inference).
Southern Federal University was formerly known as Rostov State University. My department, Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science (MMCS), is now called I. I. Vorovich Institute for Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science.
Employment
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Aug 2026−present)
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Digital Forensics, Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg, PA, USA -
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Sep 2023−Jun 2026)
Purdue University Programming Languages Group (PurPL), Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA -
Research Scientist (Sep 2017−Jul 2018)
Programming Languages Laboratory (PRL PRG), Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT)
Prague, Czech Republic -
Research Assistant (Jan−Jul 2017)
Programming Research Laboratory (PRL), Khoury College of Computer Sciences (Khoury), Northeastern University (NEU)
Boston, MA, USA -
Teaching Assistant, Lecturer (2014−2016)
Department of Computer Science and Computational Experiment, I. I. Vorovich Institute for Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science (MMCS), Southern Federal University (SFedU)
Rostov-on-Don, Russia -
Part Time Programmer (2012−2013)
Angstrem-SFedU Laboratory
Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Bio
My given name in Russian is Юлия, transliterated as Yulia. I have been using Julia as my professional name because it seems easier to pronounce, but I equally like both.
I was born in 1991 in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, where I grew up and lived until 2017.
In 2008, I finished high school and started a CS undergraduate program at the
Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science (Southern Federal University).
During my undergrad, I got involved in programming languages research
and teaching, thanks to my advisor
Stanislav Mikhalkovich.
(Stanislav is also the main person behind the teaching programming language
and IDE PascalABC.NET,
which is not to be confused with the old Pascal.)
I was lucky to have studied and then worked with several great faculty
who were interested in PL. Special thanks to
Vitaly Bragilevsky,
Artem Pelenitsyn,
and Stanislav Mikhalkovich.
In 2012–2016, I was happily teaching undergraduate CS courses at my alma mater,
Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science.
While teaching half-time, I had entered a PhD program as well, although
later started anew at Northeastern.
(Feel free to ask me about this.)
At the ECOOP conference in 2016, I met
Jan Vitek who later became my PhD advisor.
I did a research internship with him in Boston in 2017 and then spent a year in
Prague as a researcher at the
Programming Languages Laboratory
of the Czech Technical University.
In September 2018, I started a PhD in Computer Science at Northeastern University and lived in Boston until my graduation in 2023. During my PhD, I did research with Jan Vitek at the Programming Research Laboratory and worked as a teaching assistant with Matthias Felleisen.
In September 2023, I started a postdoc with Suresh Jagannathan at Purdue University and was living in Lafayette, IN until July 2026.
In August 2026, I started as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg and have been living in Bloomsburg, PA (the only town in Pennsylvania! :-)) since then.