Bruce R. Childers @ University of Pittsburgh

Biography

Bruce Childers is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the School of Computing and Information, and a Professor in the Computer Science (CS) Department at the University of Pittsburgh. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a PhD (CS, 2000) and from the College of William and Mary with a BS (CS, 1991). His research spans the software-hardware boundary for improved energy, performance and reliability, with an emphasis on embedded systems. Childers is a passionate advocate of increasing accountability in computer systems research for more reproducible and open experimentation. Try our prototype for actively curating experiments with computer system simulators! He has developed techniques at both the software layer (dynamic binary translation, compiler optimization, debugging and software testing) and the hardware layer (asynchronous custom processors, speed scaling, reliable cache design, and storage class memory). Childers participates in numerous international and national activities, including past chair of the ACM SIGPLAN and SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (2012-2015), program chair for LCTES (2010) and PPPJ (2014), member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Computer Languages, Systems and Structures Journal, member of the organizing commmittee for the Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Systems and Applications, and member of the steering committee for the International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Progamming in Java. He participates in ACM task forces on issues about scientific reproducibility in computer science research. He isa former co-director of the Computer Engineering graduate program at Pitt.

A recent curriculum vitae is available.