F. Kenneth Zadeck

Kenneth Zadeck co-founded NaturalBridge in 1996. He is an expert in Java and has done extensive work regarding the challenges of implementing large server applications in Java. He is also a recognized authority in Static Single Assignment (SSA). At NaturalBridge, Dr. Zadeck led the development of BulletTrain, a state-of-the-art Java compiler, and runtime.

Prior to founding NaturalBridge, Dr. Zadeck was a Research Staff Member in the Computer Science Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on the automatic generation of machine-specific optimizers. From 1986 to 1992 Dr. Zadeck was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brown University. From 1983 to 1986 Dr. Zadeck was a Research Staff Member in the Math Department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he co-developed the Static Single Assignment (SSA) representation used in compiler data flow analysis. Dr. Zadeck is the author of papers on optimization technology, attribute grammar systems, incremental computation, and programming environments. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in applied mathematics from Rice University.

Kenneth Zadeck is also the winner (with R. Cytron, J. Ferrante, B. K. Rosen, and M. Wegman) of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award.