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Scott Kovach
dskovach@stanford.edu
github: kovach

I'm a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford advised by Fredrik Kjolstad. Previously I studied math at MIT.

I'm interested in how programming languages help people learn and think, and how we might fulfill the old dynamic media dream. I work on domain-specific languages that emphasize relations and rules.

Notes

2025cat-on-shelf Parsing
2024Generic Join
2024There's no such thing as auto-formalization
2024Dissolve the World with Slime Magic
2023Joins and Polynomials (pdf)
2023The AGM Query Bound (pdf)

Preprints

(2025) Fast Collection Operations from Indexed Stream Fusion
Kovach, Kolichala, Miller, Broman, and Kjolstad

Publications

(PLDI23) Indexed Streams: A Formal Intermediate Representation for Fused Contraction Programs
Kovach, Kolichala, Gu, and Kjolstad

Invited Talks

2026UCSC LSD Lab (slides)
2023Sparse Tensor Workshop
2017LIVE 2017 at SPLASH
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