Jake Hughes

I’m a Research Associate at King's College London working within the Software Development Team. My research interests are garbage collection, compilation, and language runtimes.

I'm based in London, UK and am currently looking for a new research or engineering role.

Publications

Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier
Jacob Hughes, Laurence Tratt
OOPSLA 2025 (doi) (html)

Retro-fitting Conservative Garbage Collection (PhD Thesis)
Jacob Hughes
King's College London (pdf)