Armando Solar-Lezama is a Professor at MIT, and the Associate Director & COO of CSAIL. He leads the Computer Assisted Programming Group, focused on program synthesis. Armando’s PhD thesis is titled, "Program Synthesis by Sketching", which he completed in 2008 at UC Berkeley. We talk about program synthesis & his work on Sketch, how machine learning's role in program synthesis has evolved over time, and more. - Episode notes: https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode35.html - Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter - Find out more info about the show at https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html - Support The Thesis Review at www.patreon.com/thesisreview or www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview