Emery Berger

Emery Berger is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Texas at Austin in 2002. Professor Berger has been
a Visiting Scientist at Microsoft Research and at the Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) / Barcelona Supercomputing
Center (BSC).

Professor Berger's research spans programming languages,
runtime systems, and operating systems, with a particular
focus on systems that transparently improve reliability and
performance. He is the creator of various widely-used software systems
including Hoard, a fast and scalable memory manager that accelerates
multithreaded applications. His honors include a Microsoft Research
Fellowship (2001), an NSF CAREER Award (2003), a Lilly Teaching
Fellowship (2006), and a Best Paper Award at FAST 2007. Professor
Berger served as the General Chair of the Memory Systems Performance and
Correctness 2008 workshop, and serves as an Associate Editor of the
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.