TAB self-nomination

I'd like to nominate myself to serve on the TAB.

I have been developing and maintaining the C code transformation tool
Coccinelle since the mid 2000s, and have been contributing to the Linux
kernel since then, both with patches, and by pre-reviewing reports
generated by Coccinelle via 0-day.  More recently, I have been looking at
the Linux kernel task scheduler, both in terms of studying the performance
of applications induced by the scheduler as it evolves and in terms of
verification of the code that implements it.  I have given talks about the
scheduling work at various conferences.

My main interests in the context of the TAB are in helping develop
initiatives that improve code quality and code understandability.  In
particular, in my recent work on trying to understand the Linux kernel task
scheduler, I can see how the current strategies for documenting the source
code are not always at the right granularity to enable a newcomer to the
subsystem to understand the underlying design choices.  I hope to be able
to support initiatives for designing Linux kernel documentation,
formalization of the algorithms used in the code, introduction of safer
languages and coding styles, and approaches to understand the root causes
of performance issues and improvements.

Finally, my career has been spent in academia, and I have been very
grateful for the opportunity to contribute to and learn from the Linux
kernel community in this context.  Today is an exciting time of change in
software development due to the increasing capabilities of AI.  This is
currently being discussed in the kernel community, but is also the subject
of extensive research in academia, particularly in the software engineering
community.  Some of this research is already motivated by and evaluated on
the Linux kernel.  I hope to help provide a pathway for more direct and
fruitful collaboration between researchers and the Linux kernel community,
to help put ideas into practice, and to help inspire new research advances.

Julia Lawall