ProfessorNicolas Wu

Professor Nicolas Wu is Deputy Head of Department and leads the Functional Programming Research Group.

His research interests are centred around programming languages, where he has made advances in applications of category theory for giving the semantics of programs and algorithms. In particular, his recent work has been focused on showing the connections between domain specific languages, algebraic effect handlers, and structured recursion schemes.

Previously he was a Lecturer at the University of Bristol in the Theory and Algorithms group. Before that he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, and a Haskell consultant at Well-Typed. He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford where he also studied as an undergraduate at Brasenose College.