Harpreet Kaur has 13+ years of experience in university teaching as Assistant Professor and 5+ years of IT industry experience. She completed her PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Kenneth B. Kent from the University of New Brunswick (Canada) on IBM collaborative project – MicroJIT for OMR – at the Centre for Advanced Studies–Atlantic (CAS– Atlantic) Labs. Kaur received her M.Tech. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Punjab Agricultural University (India), where she was a merit holder and university gold medalist. She won a best paper award (primary author) and another best video award (member of team). She has published 16 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings, a manual on Computer Programming & Data Structures and a book chapter on Information Technology in Indian Agriculture. She is an ACM member and has served as technical committee member and reviewer for reputed conferences and journals.

Education (Starting from recent):

• Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (2025)
• M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engg.), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (2006)
• B.Tech. (Computer Science & Engg.), Guru Nanak Dev Engg. College, Ludhiana (2004)

Positions Held: 

• Assistant Professor, PAU (2011-present)
• Assistant Manager (Software Development), Trident Limited (2006-2011)

Field of Specialization: Language Compilers, Big Data, Software Development

Research Interests: Generative AI, Digital Agriculture

Publications:

1. Kaur H, Pirvu M and Kent KB (2024). An improved template-based JIT compiler for Java. In: Proc 34th Int Conf Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON ’24). November 2024. pp. 1-10.
2. Kaur H, Young S, Pirvu M and Kent KB (2024). Lightweight compilation of method invocation bytecodes in Java. In: Proc 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symp on Applied Computing (SAC ’24). April 2024. pp. 1114-1121.
3. Verma S, Kaur H, Pirvu M and Kent KB (2023). Array bytecode support in MicroJIT. In: Proc 15th ACM SIGPLAN Int Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages (VMIL 2023). October 2023. pp. 29-38.
4. Kaur H, Pirvu M and Kent KB (2023). Performance evaluation of template-based JIT compilation in OpenJ9. In: Proc 33rd Annu Int Conf Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON ’23). September 2023. pp. 103-112.
5. Kaur H, Krylov G, Damghani S A and Kent K B (2021). Heterogeneous logic implementation for adders in VTR. In: Proc 32nd IEEE Int Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP). October 2021. pp. 57-63.