Dr. Laurent Daynès
Staff Engineer
Barcelona Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
2600 Casey Ave.
MS UMTV29-111
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA
Email: laurent.daynes@sun.com
Laurent Daynès is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
Laboratories. His research interest includes virtual machine design, language-based extensible operating systems, and
the integration of type safe programming languages with flexible transactional mechanisms as a safe approach to
object sharing.
He is currently working in the Barcelona project, which
focuses on architectures and tools for improving the
scalability and reliability of the JavaTM platform.
Before joining Sun Microsystems Laboratories in October 1997, he worked as a
research fellow in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was the lead designer
and implementor of the first prototype of PJamaTM, a JavaTM Virtual Machine with
provision of orthogonal persistence.
From 1991 to 1995, he has worked at INRIA.
Laurent Daynès has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University Pierre & Marie
Curie (Jussieu Paris 6) in France.