Google Summer of Code 2026 Contributor
email: keremsahin401[at]gmail[dot]com
Education: Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024 - 2029
Ongoing project:
Implement CppInterOp API Exposing Memory Ownership and Thread Safety
This project extends CppInterOp with a new API layer that statically analyzes C++ functions and
exposes their memory and thread safety behavior using AST. Language binding tools like cppyy can use
this information to automatically determine whether a returned object must be deleted by the caller,
or whether a function is safe to call concurrently. This is particularly valuable for large scientific
libraries like ROOT, where users today must manually handle memory management and thread safety concerns when
calling C++ functions from Python. By exposing this information directly from the AST,
the project enables binding tools to handle it automatically.
Project Proposal: URL
Mentors: Vassil Vassilev, Aaron Jomy, Vipul Cariappa
We are partially funded by the
Princeton Department of Physics
and
Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering
(PICSciE).
Contact: David Lange; Vassil Vassilev
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant OAC-1931408 (2020-2023) and OAC-2311471(2023-2026). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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