Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira

Research Interests

I am a member of the IFIP Working Group 2.1 (Algorithmic Languages and Calculi), a steering committee member of the Workshop on Generic Programming and a steering committee member of the Haskell Symposium.

HKU PL Group

I lead the HKU PL group. Please visit our group web page for more information!

PhD Positions: I am always interested to hear about potential candidates with a strong motivation to pursue further studies in Programming Languages. I usually have positions available every academic year. If you're interested please drop me an email.

Other Resources about my research

• Google Scholar - A list of my papers/drafts at google scholar.
• ACM - A complete, but unsound list of my ACM publications.
• DBLP - The quickest way to get a bibtex file for citing my papers :).
• Microsoft Academic - Another cool academic website from Microsoft.

Teaching

• (CSIS0258 and COMP3258) - Functional Programming (2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018)
• (CSIS0259 and COMP3259) - Principles of Programming Languages (2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018)

Events

• PC Chair - 17th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020).   Please submit a paper!
• PC Member - 35th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2020).  Please submit a paper!

• PC Chair - 12th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018).  Please submit a paper!
• PC Member - 24th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2019). Please submit a paper!
• PC Member - 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Please submit a paper! 
• PC Chair - 9th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Scala (Scala'18).
• PC member - Haskell Symposium (HS 2018).
• ERC Member - 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2018). 
• PC member - 11th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018).
• ERC member – 32nd ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications.
• PC member -14th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2017).
• PC member – 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2017).
• PC member – 26th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2017) .
• PC member -14th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2016).
• PC member - 9th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2016).
• ERC Member - 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2016). 
• PC member – 31st ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2016).
• PC member - 15th International Conference on Modularity (Modularity 2016).
• PC member - 24th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL 2015).
• PC member -11th International Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP 2015)
• PC member - 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015).
• PC member - 14th International Conference on Modularity (Modularity 2015).
• PC member - Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC 2015).
• PC member - 6th International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD 2014).
• PC member - 29th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2014).
• PC member - 13th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2014). 
• PC member - Haskell Symposium (HS 2014).
• PC member -Scala Workshop (SW 2014).
• PC member -Object Oriented Programming Languages and Systems track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014)
• PC member -PL track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014)
• PC member -13th International Conference on Modularity (MODULARITY 2014)
• PC member -11th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2013).
• PC member -5th International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD 2013).
• PC member -28th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2013).
• PC member -15th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2013).
• PC member -Foundations of Aspect Oriented Languages (FOAL 2013).
• PC member -Scala Workshop (SW 2013).
• PC member -Foundations of Aspect Oriented Languages (FOAL 2013).
• PC member - 24th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL 2012).
• PC member - Scala Days 2012.
• PC member - Foundations of Aspect Oriented Languages (FOAL 2012).
• PC member - 11th ACM International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development: Perspectives on Modularity (AOSD 2012).
• PC member - 26th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2011).
  
• PC member - 4th Haskell Symposium (HS 2011).
  
• PC member - 4th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2011).
  
• PC member - 10th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2011).
  
• PC member - Foundations of Aspect Oriented Languages (FOAL 2011).
  
• Co-Chair - 6th International Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP 2010)
  
• PC member - 9th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2010)
  

Publications

• Bidirectional Higher-Ranked Polymorphism with Intersection and Union Types
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Shengyi Jiang, Chen Cui and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 52nd Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025). January 2025 
• QuickSub: Efficient Iso-Recursive Subtyping
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Litao Zhou and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 52nd Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025). January 2025 
• Merging Gradual Typing
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Wenjia Ye, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Matias Toro
In 38th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2024). October 2024 
• Full Iso-Recursive Types
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Litao Zhou, Qianyong Wan and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 38th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2024). October 2024 
• A Case for First Class Environments
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Jinhao Tan and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 38th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2024). October 2024 
• Imperative Compositional Programming
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Wenjia Ye, Yaozhu Sun and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 38th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2024). October 2024 
• Contextual Typing
  
[pdf] [Artifact (including extended article)]
Xu Xue and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 29th ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2024). September 2024 
• Disjoint Polymorphism with Intersection and Union Types
  
[pdf] [Artifact]
Baber Rehman and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 26th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTFJP 2024). September 2024 
• Type-Directed Operational Semantics for Gradual Typing
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Wenjia Ye and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In Journal of Functional Programming (JFP). July 2024 
Note: This an extended version of a ECOOP 2021 paper.
• Greedy Implicit Bounded Quantification
  
[pdf] [Artifact (including extended article)]
Chen Cui, Shengyi Jiang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 37th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2023). October 2023 
• Dependent Merges and First-Class Environments
  
[pdf] [Coq proofs]
Jinhao Tan and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). July 2023 
• Pragmatic Gradual Polymorphism with References
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Wenjia Ye and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 32nd European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2023). April 2023 
• Recursive Subtyping for All
  
[pdf] [Coq proofs] [appendix]
Litao Zhou, Yaoda Zhou and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 50th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2023). January 2023 
• Making a Type Difference
  
[pdf] [artifact]
Han Xu, Xuejing Huang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 50th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2023). January 2023 
• A Bowtie for a Beast: Overloading, Eta Expansion and Extensible Datatypes in F⋈
  
[pdf] [appendix]
Nick Rioux, Xuejing Huang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Steve Zdancewic
In 50th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2023). January 2023 
• Compositional Embeddings of Domain-Specific Languages
  
[pdf] [extended version] [Online implementation]
Yaozhu Sun, Utkarsh Dhandhania and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 37th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2022). December 2022 

• A Calculus with Recursive Types, Record Concatenation and Subtyping
  
[pdf] [extended version] [supplementary materials]
Yaoda Zhou, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Andong Fan
In Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2022). December 2022 

• Applicative Intersection Types
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Xu Xue, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Ningning Xie
In Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2022). December 2022 

• Revisiting Iso-Recursive Subtyping
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Yaoda Zhou, Jinxu Zhao and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). December 2022 
Note: This an extended version of a OOPSLA 2020 paper.
• Elementary Type Inference
  
[pdf] [extended version] [supplementary materials]
Jinxu Zhao and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). June 2022 

• Union Types with Disjoint Switches
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Baber Rehman, Xuejing Huang, Ningning Xie and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). June 2022 

• Direct Foundations for Compositional Programming
  
[pdf] [extended version] [supplementary materials]
Andong Fan, Xuejing Huang, Han Xu, Yaozhu Sun and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). June 2022 

• Taming the Merge Operator
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Xuejing Huang, Jinxu Zhao and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In Journal of Functional Programming (JFP). August 2021 
Note: This an extended version of a ECOOP 2020 paper.
• Distributing Intersection and Union Types with Splits and Duality (Functional Pearl)
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Xuejing Huang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2021). August 2021 

• Type-directed Operational Semantics for Gradual Typing
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Wenjia Ye, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Xuejing Huang
In 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021). July 2021 

• Compositional Programming
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Weixin Zhang, Yaozhu Sun and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). Distinguished Artifact Award! April 2021 
Note: This is a Journal first publication for ECOOP 2021.
• A Dependently Typed Calculus with Polymorphic Subtyping
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Mingqi Xue and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In Science of Computer Programming (SCP), April 2021 
Note: This is a Journal first publication for ECOOP 2021.
• Revisiting Iso-Recursive Subtyping
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Yaoda Zhou, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Jinxu Zhao
In 35th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2020), November 2020 
• Resolution as Intersection Subtyping via Modus Ponens
  
[pdf] [extended version]
Koar Marntirosian, Tom Schrijvers, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Georgios Karachalias
In 35th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2020), November 2020 
• A Type-Directed Operational Semantics for a Calculus with a Merge Operator
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Xuejing Huang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 34th European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020), November 2020 
• Row and Bounded Polymorphism via Disjoint Polymorphism
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Ningning Xie, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Xuan Bi and Tom Schrijvers
In 34th European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020), November 2020 
• The Duality of Subtyping
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Shaobo Cui and Baber Rehman
In 34th European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020), November 2020 
• Castor: Programming with Extensible Generative Visitors
  
[pdf]  [supplementary materials]
Weixin Zhang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In Science of Computer Programming Journal, March 2020 
• Kind Inference for Datatypes
  
[pdf] [appendix]
Ningning Xie, Richard Eisenberg, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 47th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2020). Distinguished Paper Award! January 2020 
• Consistent Subtyping for All
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Ningning Xie, Xuan Bi, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Tom Schrijvers
In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). November 2019
Note: This is an extended journal version of the ESOP 2018 paper!
• Pure Iso-Type Systems
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Yanpeng Yang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In Journal of Functional Programming, Volume 29 (JFP). September 2019
• A Mechanical Formalization of Higher-Ranked Polymorphic Type Inference
  [pdf] [supplementary materials]
  Jinxu Zhao, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Tom Schrijvers
  In 24th International Conference on Functional Programming  (ICFP 2019). Distinguished Paper Award! August 2019
• Distributive Disjoint Polymorphism for Compositional Programming
  [pdf] [supplementary materials]
  Xuan Bi, Ningning Xie, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Tom Schrijvers
  In 28th European Symposium on Programming  (ESOP 2019). April 2019
• Shallow EDSLs and Object-Oriented Programming: Beyond Simple Compositionality
  
[pdf] [supplementary materials]
Weixin Zhang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In The Art, Science and Engineering of Programming, Volume 3 (Programming Journal). Editors' Choice Award! February 2019
• Separating Use and Reuse to Improve Both
  
[pdf]
Hrshikesh Arora, Marco Servetto and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In The Art, Science and Engineering of Programming, Volume 3 (Programming Journal). February 2019
• Cochis: Stable and Coherent Implicits
  
[pdf] [prototype]
Tom Schrijvers, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Philip Wadler and Koar Marntirosian
In Journal of Functional Programming, Volume 29  (JFP). February 2019
• Pattern Matching in an Open World
  [pdf] [source code]
  Weixin Zhang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 17th International Conference on Generative Programming  (GPCE 2018). November 2018
• The Essence of Nested Composition
  [pdf] [supplementary materials]
  Xuan Bi, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Tom Schrijvers
  In 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming  (ECOOP 2018). July 2018
• FHJ: A Formal Model for Hierarchical Dispatching and Overriding
  [pdf]
  Yanlin Wang, Haoyuan Zhang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Marco Servetto
  In 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming  (ECOOP 2018). July 2018
• Typed First-Class Traits
  [pdf] [supplementary materials]
  Xuan Bi and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming  (ECOOP 2018). July 2018
• Formalization of a Polymorphic Subtyping Algorithm
  [pdf] [Abella proofs]
  Jinxu Zhao, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Tom Schrijvers
  In 9th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2018). July 2018
• Let Arguments go First
  [pdf]
  Ningning Xie and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 27th European Symposium on Programming  (ESOP 2018). April 2018
• Consistent Subtyping for All
  [pdf]
  Ningning Xie, Xuan Bi and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 27th European Symposium on Programming  (ESOP 2018). April 2018
• Unifying Typing and Subtyping
  [pdf]
  Yanpeng Yang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 32th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2017). October 2017
• Type-Safe Modular Parsing
  [pdf]
  Haoyuan Zhang, Li Huang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 10th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering  (SLE 2017). October 2017
• Quantified Class Constraints
  [pdf]
  Gert-Jan Bottu, Georgios Karachalias, Tom Schrijvers, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Philip Wadler
  In 10th Haskell Symposium  (Haskell 2017). September 2017
• EVF: An Extensible and Expressive Visitor Framework for Programming Language Reuse
  [pdf]
  Weixin Zhang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming  (ECOOP 2017). June 2017
• Disjoint Polymorphism
  [pdf]
  Joao Alpuim, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Zhiyuan Shi
  In 26th European Symposium on Programming  (ESOP 2017). April 2017
• Unified Syntax with Iso-Types
  [pdf]
  Yanpeng Yang, Xuan Bi, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 14th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems  (APLAS 2016). November 2016
• Classless Java
  [pdf]
  Yanlin Wang, Haoyuan Zhang, Marco Servetto, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 15th International Conference on Generative Programming  (GPCE 2016). October 2016
• Disjoint Intersection Types
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Zhiyuan Shi and Joao Alpuim
  In 21st International Conference on Functional Programming  (ICFP 2016). September 2016
• The Expression Problem, Trivially!
  [pdf]
  Yanlin Wang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 15th International Conference on Modularity  (Modularity 2016). Best research paper award! March 2016
• Modular Architecture for Code and Metadata Sharing
  [pdf]
  Tomas Tauber and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 15th International Conference on Modularity  (Modularity 2016). Best visions paper award! March 2016
• Memory-efficient Tail Calls in the JVM with Imperative Functional Objects
  [pdf]
  Tomas Tauber, Xuan Bi, Zhiyuan Shi, Weixin Zhang, Huang Li, Zhenrui Zhang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 13th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems  (APLAS 2015). December 2015
• Scrap your Boilerplate with Object Algebras
  [pdf]
  Haoyuan Zhang, Jewei Chu, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Tijs van der Storm
  In 30th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2015). October 2015
• Modular Reifiable Matching: A List-of-Functors Approach to Two-Level Types
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Shin-Cheng Mu and Shu-Hung You
  In Haskell Symposium (Haskell 2015). September 2015
• Functional programming, object-oriented programming and algebras!

  Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira
  WGP '14 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Generic programming, 2014
• Modular monadic meta-theory

  Benjamin Delaware, Steven Keuchel, Tom Schrijvers, Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira
  ICFP '13 Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming, 2013
• Regression tests to expose change interaction errors

  Marcel Böhme, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Abhik Roychoudhury
  ESEC/FSE 2013 Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2013
• Meta-theory à la carte

  Benjamin Delaware, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers
  POPL '13 Proceedings of the 40th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages, 2013
• Feature-Oriented Programming with Object Algebras
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tijs van der Storm, Alex Loh and William R. Cook
  In 27th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2013). July 2013
• Partition-based Regression Verification
  
[pdf]
Marcel Boehme, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Abhik Roychoudhury
In 35th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013). May 2013
• Abstract syntax graphs for domain specific languages

  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Andres Löh
  PEPM '13 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2013 workshop on Partial evaluation and program manipulation, 2013
• MRI: Modular Reasoning about Interference in Incremental Programming
  
[pdf]
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers and William R. Cook
Journal of Functional Programming, Vol 22, issue 06, pages 797-852. November 2012.
• Functional programming with structured graphs

  Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira, William R. Cook
  ICFP '12 Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming, 2012
• Rational Term Equality, Functionally
  
[pdf]
Tom Schrijvers and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
In 24th Draft Proceedings of the Symposium on Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL 2012). 2012.

• Extensibility for the Masses: Practical Extensibility with Object Algebras
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and William R. Cook
  In the 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2012). Best paper award! February 2012.
  Note: See also a collection of solutions to the Expression Problem in multiple languages!
• The Implicit Calculus: A New Foundation for Generic Programming 
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers, Wontae Choi, Wonchan Lee and Kwangkeun Yi
  In the 33rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2012). February 2012.
  Note: See also our extended draft The Implicit Calculus: A New Foundation for Generic Programming.
• GMeta: A Generic Formal Metatheory Framework for First-Order Representations
  [pdf]
  Gyesik Lee, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Sungkeun Cho and Kwangkeun Yi
  To appear in the 22nd European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2012). See also the GMeta webpage, January 2012.
• Monads, zippers and views: virtualizing the monad stack

  Tom Schrijvers, Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira
  ACM SIGPLAN Notices - ICFP '11,��2011
• Type classes as objects and implicits

  Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira, Adriaan Moors, Martin Odersky
  OOPSLA '10 Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications,��2010
• Scala for Generic Programmers
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Jeremy Gibbons
  Journal of Functional Programming, Vol. 20, pages 303-352. October 2010.
  Note: This is an extended version of the WGP'08 paper.
• 6th ACM Proceedings of the ICFP Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP 2010)
  [url]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Marcin Zalewski
  September 2010.
• Modular Components with Monadic Effects
  [pdf]
  Tom Schrijvers and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In 22nd Draft Proceedings of the Symposium on Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL). September 2010.
• EffectiveAdvice: disciplined advice with explicit effects

  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers, William R. Cook
  AOSD '10 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development,��2010
  A technical report can be found here.
• What does aspect-oriented programming mean for functional programmers?

  Meng Wang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  WGP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Generic programming,��2009
• The Essence of the Iterator Pattern
  [pdf]
  Jeremy Gibbons and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  Journal of Functional Programming, Vol. 19, pages 377-402. July 2009. If you are a Scala programmer you may want to look at Eric Torreborre's nice blog post about the paper.
• Modular Visitor Components: A Practical Solution to the Expression Families Problem
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In Sophia Drossopoulou, editor, LNCS 5653, Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP). June 2009.
• The visitor pattern as a reusable, generic, type-safe component

  Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira, Meng Wang, Jeremy Gibbons
  OOPSLA '08 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications,��2008
• Scala for generic programmers

  Bruno C.d.S. Oliveira, Jeremy Gibbons
  WGP '08 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Generic programming,��2008
  See also the extended version. September 2008.
• Comparing libraries for generic programming in haskell

  Alexey Rodriguez, Johan Jeuring, Patrik Jansson, Alex Gerdes, Oleg Kiselyov, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  Haskell '08 Proceedings of the first ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Haskell,��2008
  See also the extended technical report. September 2008.
• Scalable Problem Localization for Distributed Systems: Principles and Practices
  [pdf]
  Rui Zhang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Alan Bivens, Steve McKeever
  In ACM International Conference Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale'07). June 2007.
• Extensible and Modular Generics for the Masses
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Ralf Hinze and Andres Loeh
  In Henrik Nilsson, editor, Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). Best student paper award! See also the EMGM Library maintained by Sean Leather. June 2007.
• Generic and Indexed Programming
  [pdf]
  Jeremy Gibbons, Meng Wang and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In Marco T. Morazan, Henrik Nilsson, editors, Draft Proceedings of Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). April 2007.
• The Essence of the Iterator Pattern
  [pdf]
  Jeremy Gibbons and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In Conor McBride, Tarmo Uustalu, editors, Workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming (MSFP). See also the journal version. July 2006.
• Generics as a Library
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Ralf Hinze and Andres Loeh
  In Henrik Nilsson, editor, Draft Proceedings of Trends in Functional Programming (TFP). Superseded by Extensible and Modular Generics for the Masses. April 2006.
• "Scrap your Boilerplate" Reloaded
  [Webpage]
  Ralf Hinze, Andres Loeh and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  In Philip Wadler, Masami Hagiya, editors, LNCS 3945, Proceedings of the Functional and Logic Programming Symposium (FLOPS). April 2006.
• TypeCase: a design pattern for type-indexed functions

  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Jeremy Gibbons
  Haskell '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell,��2005

Drafts

• Functional Pearl: The Monad Zipper (Draft paper)
  [pdf]
  Tom Schrijvers and Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  Submitted, April 2010
• Typesafe Code Reuse Across ASTs via Code Generation (Draft paper)
  [pdf]
  Mikolas Janota, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Viliam Holub
  Submitted, see also the Rexastor tool, October 2009
• The Different Aspects of Monads and Mixins (Draft Paper)
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira
  Unpublished, March 2009
• Objects to Unify Type Classes and GADTs (Draft Paper)
  [pdf]
  Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira and Martin Sulzmann
  Unpublished, March 2008

Graduate dissertations by my students and myself.

• Applied Type Directed Semantics
  [pdf]
  Wenjia Ye
  PhD, The University of Hong Kong. 2024.
• A Blend of Intersection and Union Types
  [pdf]
  Baber Rehman
  PhD, The University of Hong Kong. 2023.
• Applicative Intersection Types
  [pdf]
  Xu Xue
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• Extensible Domain-Specific Languages in Object-Oriented Programming
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