Eelco Visser (12 October 1966 – 5 April 2022) was an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Computer Science at

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Academic career

Visser was born in

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. He received an MSc and Doctorate in Computer Science from the

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in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Previously he served as a Postdoc at the

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from 1997 to 1998, as assistant professor at

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from 1998 to 2006, and as associate professor at TU Delft from 2006 to 2013. Visser published over 100 publications in conferences and journals. His research included contributions to declarative syntax definition and parsing ( SDF/SGLR), high-level definition of program transformations ( Stratego/XT), language workbenches (Spoofax), modular language definition,

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s for web programming (WebDSL/mobl), and declarative models for (distributed) software deployment (Nix). He was the project leader of the NWO (Jacquard) projects TraCE, TFA, MoDSE, and PDS, which have produced several open source software systems used in research and industry. In 2013 he received the prestigious NWO VICI grant for research into verification of language definitions. Visser was an active member of the programming languages community and served on many program committees of the important conferences in the field including

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, MODELS, SLE, and GPCE. At one time he was general chair of the ACM International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2010), and program chair of the International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT 2011) and of

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2011. He was member of the steering committees of SPLASH,

, ICMT, and Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE), and chaired the latter. He was founding member of the IFIP Working Groups 2.11 (Program Generation) and 2.16 (Language Design), and he served as chair of the latter. Eelco Visser had create
program-transformation.org
web site in 2000 for collecting, organizing and disseminating information about all aspects of

Program transformation A program transformation is any operation that takes a computer program and generates another program. In many cases the transformed program is required to be semantically equivalent to the original, relative to a particular Formal semantics of p ...

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Google scholar profile

program-transformation.org
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