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, Max Jung, Yizhou Zhang

    OOPSLA 2024
Lexical Effect Handlers, Directly

Cong Ma, Zhaoyi Ge, Edward Lee, Yizhou Zhang

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

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

Talks
Zero-Cost Lexical Effect Handlers
Lexical Effect Handlers, Directly
Quantifying and Mitigating Cache Side Channel Leakage with Differential Set
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.