Simon Marlow

Simon Marlow is a British computer scientist, programmer, author, and co-developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) for the programming language Haskell. He and Simon Peyton Jones won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award in 2011 for their work on GHC. Marlow's book Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell was published in July 2013.^[1]

Simon Marlow
Education	University of Glasgow University of Bristol
Known for	Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Awards	SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Microsoft Research Facebook, Meta Platforms (London)

Formerly of Microsoft Research,^[2] Marlow has worked at Facebook since March 2013. The "noted Haskell guru"^[3] is part of the team behind Facebook's open source Haxl project,^[4][5] a Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data.^[6]

Honours and awards

In 2011, he and Simon Peyton Jones were awarded the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for their work on GHC.^[7] In 2019, Marlow was awarded the Most Influential ICFP Paper award for "Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell".^[8][9]