Vision
The Functional Programming (FP) Launchpad at IIT Madras aims to build research and educational capacity for crafting efficient, reliable and trustworthy software with mathematical guardrails. As AI coding agents make software increasingly accessible and enable its production at unprecedented scale, they also introduce far-reaching consequences for civic society. In this context, the centre is founded on the belief that discovering future software engineering best practices requires sustained feedback loops between research and real-world systems, as well as educational structures that cultivate a new generation of maintainers for foundational software.
People
Faculty
- KC Sivaramakrishnan, Head, FP Launchpad, IIT Madras and Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
- Ayon Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
- Kartik Nagar, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
- Balraman Ravindran, Professor and Head, Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI, IIT Madras
- Chester Rebeiro, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
- Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras
Advisory Board
- Suresh Jagannathan, Professor, Purdue University
- Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor, University of Cambridge
- Sriram Rajamani, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research