Overview


My research focuses on making programs run faster and better.  New!  Research blog.

Recent & ongoing research projects include:

  • OS support for high responsiveness and performance
    • Redline: first-class support for interactivity in commodity operating systems [OSDI08]
    • CRAMM: cooperative robust automatic memory management [OSDI06]
  • High-performance memory management

More information on these and other projects can be found here; read this recent research statement for an overview of my work to date (also: vita, teaching statement, service statement).

Systems at UMass: See the SUMA (Systems at UMass Amherst) page for links to the 22 systems researchers at UMass. In the area of systems, UMass's CS department was ranked #18 in the nation (US News, top 25 overall) and is moving on up. For more information about the UMass Computer Science department, read our new Computer Science booklet describing the Department's faculty, students, education, and research.