Zena M. Ariola
Zena M. Ariola is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Zena received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pisa and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her original research interests were in parallel architectures, specifically dataflow machines. The desire to better understand the dataflow model of computation lead to first working on term graph rewriting, then on lambda-calculus and classical logic.
In 2002, in collaboration with Hugo Herbelin from INRIA, started the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS), which provides students a unique opportunity to study relevant background and cutting-edge results in the field of programming languages research. By establishing and running OPLSS, Zena received the 2018 SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award.