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| JetBrains Research | |
|---|---|
| Name | JetBrains Research |
| Type | Research division |
| Founded | 2010s |
| Parent organization | JetBrains |
| Headquarters | Prague |
| Fields | Computer science; Software engineering; Programming languages |
JetBrains Research is a software-focused research division established by a European software company to advance studies in programming languages, software engineering, and developer tools. It conducts academic-style investigations, develops prototypes, and collaborates with universities, research institutes, and industry partners to transfer results into products and open-source artifacts. The group interacts with a broad ecosystem including conferences, journals, funding agencies, and academic departments.
Founded in the 2010s as a corporate research arm, the division emerged during a period of increased industry investment in basic research alongside organizations such as Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, Bell Labs, and Xerox PARC. Its early trajectory paralleled initiatives like DARPA-funded programs and collaborations with continental institutions such as Czech Technical University in Prague, Charles University, Masaryk University, and international partners including Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge. Over time it adopted practices seen at Max Planck Society-affiliated groups and worked within European funding frameworks like Horizon 2020 and national agencies akin to Czech Science Foundation. Leadership included researchers with backgrounds connected to conferences such as International Conference on Software Engineering, Programming Language Design and Implementation, and Principles of Programming Languages.
The research division operates as a unit within a parent company headquartered in Prague and with staff distributed across offices in cities comparable to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Munich, New York City, and Zurich. Its structure reflects models used by institutions such as Fraunhofer Society and research centers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and ETH Zurich. Teams are organized around labs and groups resembling those at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Oxford Robotics Institute, with roles ranging from principal investigators to postdoctoral researchers and PhD students affiliated with universities including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Toronto, McGill University, and University of Washington.
Research topics span areas prominent in academic venues like NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, and FSE. Active themes include programming language design tied to concepts from Lambda calculus, type systems appearing in work related to System F and Dependent type theory, static analysis techniques with lineage from Abstract interpretation, and tooling influenced by Integrated development environment innovations pioneered at Borland and Microsoft Visual Studio. Projects have produced prototypes in areas overlapping with formal verification practices used at places like NASA and European Space Agency, as well as applied machine-learning approaches to code influenced by research from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Facebook AI Research.
The division maintains partnerships with universities and labs comparable to Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cornell University's departments, and national labs such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It has engaged in consortia similar to Linux Foundation projects, collaborated with standards bodies akin to ISO and ECMA International, and participated in workshops co-located with NeurIPS, ICSE, PLDI, and OOPSLA. Industry collaborations echo relationships seen with Red Hat, Amazon Web Services, Intel, NVIDIA, and SAP.
Outreach activities mirror programs run by institutions such as ACM, IEEE Computer Society, European Organization for Nuclear Research, and leading universities. The group organizes summer schools inspired by formats used at CERN Summer Student Programme and Turing School, offers internships modeled on Google Summer of Code, and contributes to teaching via university seminars and guest lectures at institutions like Princeton University, Imperial College London, Technical University of Munich, and Seoul National University. It also supports workshops and tutorials at conferences including ICSE, ECOOP, and SOSP.
Contributions have appeared in venues comparable to Journal of the ACM, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, and conference proceedings for PLDI, POPL, ICSE, FSE, and NeurIPS. Work includes topics resonant with landmark papers from Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman traditions, innovations in static program analysis connected to Patrick Cousot's lineage, and advances in code intelligence paralleling efforts at GitHub Copilot-related research. Outputs include open-source artifacts released on platforms like GitHub, benchmarks used by communities similar to SPEC, and datasets analogous to those produced by Stanford Question Answering Dataset initiatives.
The division and its researchers have received recognitions comparable to awards granted by ACM, IEEE, European Research Council, and national academies similar to Czech Academy of Sciences. Individual members have been invited to program committees and editorial boards associated with PLDI, POPL, ICSE, NeurIPS, and have been keynote speakers at symposia like Strange Loop and Scala Days-style events. Collaborative projects have earned grants paralleling ERC Starting Grant and national fellowship schemes in Eastern and Western Europe.
Category:Research institutes