Cong Ma
PhD student
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo

Research Interests

I study programming languages, and I'm advised by Yizhou Zhang.

Before that, I worked on security and programming language at Penn State University, advised by Danfeng Zhang

Peer-Reviewed Publications
    In Submission
Zero-Cost Lexical Effect Handlers

Cong Ma, Zhaoyi Ge, Yizhou Zhang

    OOPSLA 2024
Lexical Effect Handlers, Directly

Cong Ma, Zhaoyi Ge, Edward Lee, Yizhou Zhang

[ full paper | the Lexa language ]

    OOPSLA 2023
Quantifying and Mitigating Cache Side Channel Leakage with Differential Set

Cong Ma, Dinghao Wu, Gang Tan, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Danfeng Zhang

[ full paper | the DSA tool ]

Teaching Assistant
CMPSC 311, Introduction to Systems Programming
CSE 541: Database Systems I
Awards
David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship
2024 OPLSS Fellowship Grant
2024 MWPLS Travel Grant
PSU CSE Teaching Assistant Award
Misc
I spent a year working on distributed system reliability at DoorDash. You can read a blog post here.