* [Parallel closures: a new twist on an old
idea](https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotpar12/parallel-closures-new-twist-old-idea)
- not exactly about Rust, but by nmatsakis
* [Patina: A Formalization of the Rust Programming
Language](https://dada.cs.washington.edu/research/tr/2015/03/UW-CSE-15-03-02.pdf).
Early formalization of a subset of the type system, by Eric Reed.
* [Experience Report: Developing the Servo Web Browser Engine using
Rust](https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07383). By Lars Bergstrom.
* [Implementing a Generic Radix Trie in
Rust](https://michaelsproul.github.io/rust_radix_paper/rust-radix-sproul.pdf). Undergrad
paper by Michael Sproul.
* [Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in
Rust](https://scialex.github.io/reenix.pdf). Undergrad paper by Alex
Light.
* [Evaluation of performance and productivity metrics of potential programming languages in the HPC environment](https://github.com/1wilkens/thesis-ba).
Bachelor's thesis by Florian Wilkens. Compares C, Go and Rust.
* [Nom, a byte oriented, streaming, zero copy, parser combinators library
in Rust](http://spw15.langsec.org/papers/couprie-nom.pdf). By
Geoffroy Couprie, research for VLC.
* [Graph-Based Higher-Order Intermediate
Representation](https://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/papers/lkh15_cgo.pdf). An
experimental IR implemented in Impala, a Rust-like language.
* [Code Refinement of Stencil
Codes](https://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/papers/ppl14_web.pdf). Another
paper using Impala.
* [Parallelization in Rust with fork-join and
friends](http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/219016/219016.pdf). Linus
Farnstrand's master's thesis.
* [Session Types for
Rust](https://munksgaard.me/papers/laumann-munksgaard-larsen.pdf). Philip
Munksgaard's master's thesis. Research for Servo.
* [Ownership is Theft: Experiences Building an Embedded OS in Rust - Amit Levy, et. al.](https://amitlevy.com/papers/tock-plos2015.pdf)
* [You can't spell trust without Rust](https://faultlore.com/blah/papers/thesis.pdf). Aria Beingessner's master's thesis.
* [Rust-Bio: a fast and safe bioinformatics library](https://rust-bio.github.io/). Johannes Köster
* [Safe, Correct, and Fast Low-Level Networking](https://csperkins.org/research/thesis-msci-clipsham.pdf). Robert Clipsham's master's thesis.
* [Formalizing Rust traits](https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0220521). Jonatan Milewski's master's thesis.
* [Rust as a Language for High Performance GC Implementation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3241624.2926707)
* [Simple Verification of Rust Programs via Functional Purification](https://github.com/Kha/electrolysis). Sebastian Ullrich's master's thesis.
* [Writing parsers like it is 2017](http://spw17.langsec.org/papers/chifflier-parsing-in-2017.pdf) Pierre Chifflier and Geoffroy Couprie for the Langsec Workshop
* [The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust](https://www.tockos.org/assets/papers/rust-kernel-apsys2017.pdf)
* [RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language](https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/popl18/)
* [Oxide: The Essence of Rust](https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00982). By Aaron Weiss, Olek Gierczak, Daniel Patterson, Nicholas D. Matsakis, and Amal Ahmed.