Dr Geoff Hamilton

I am an associate professor at the School of Computing at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

I joined DCU at the start of 1998. Previously, I was a lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematics at Keele University in England. I did my Ph.D. in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Here’s my contact information.

I teach the following modules:

The resources for these courses can be found on Loop.

My early research work was in the areas of program analysis and program transformation. This included the first extension of the deforestation algorithm to higher-order languages. More recent research in the area of program transformation has resulted in the development of the distillation algorithm, which is a major advance over deforestation and gives orders of magnitude improvement in both the time and space usage of programs, as opposed to the higher-order deforestation algorithm, which can only give a linear improvement. It turns out that distillation can be applied in many different areas:

Here are some project ideas for undergraduate projects and M.Sc. practicums.