Bruce Childers is the Interim Dean of the School of Computing and Information (SCI). He previously served as Senior Associate Dean of SCI, Special Assistant to the Provost for Data Science, and Chair of the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship. He is a Professor of Computer Science. Previously acting as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, Childers led faculty recruitment and development for SCI. He has also been the Co-director of the Graduate Computer Engineering program and the Director of Graduate Studies for Computer Science. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a PhD (CS, 2000) and the College of William and Mary with a BS (CS, 1991).
Childers' recent research focuses on novel technologies and cultural change to advance transparency, reuse and reproducibility of data science for accelerated discovery and trustworthy insight. With colleagues, these scholarly contributions are disseminated through innovations embodied in open source software, including the Occam system. His research also addresses the software-hardware boundary for improved energy, performance, reliability, and robustness, with an emphasis on embedded systems, including the Internet-of-Things.
He has participated in numerous events, including past steering committee chair of the ACM SIGPLAN and SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES); program chair of LCTES; organizing committee of the DOE, DoD and NSF Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Systems and Applications; and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers. He has participated in several activities on scientific reproducibility, particularly in computer science research.
A recent curriculum vitae is available.
Workflow Systems: OCCAM from Rachel Kelly on Vimeo.
Companion slides (PDF) to the video of the talk.
Talk given at the Modeling the World's Systems Conference, May 22, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.
June 24, 2017: We are giving a tutorial about The Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST) and OCCAM at ISCA 2017. Come and learn how to create, run, share and repeat your simulations anywhere at anytime with anyone!
March 16, 2017: Here is a video demonstrating a use case of OCCAM, where a reader of a paper interacts with experiments from the paper. This shows how interactive, modifiable experiments might be associated with a paper. Enjoy!
December 8, 2016: Musfiq successfully defended his PhD thesis, Continuous Online Memory Diagnostics. Musfiq developed a novel framework for online software memory diagnostics to continously check memory health in a range of systems from desktops to NUMA servers. His approach imposes minimal performance impact on executing applications. Way to go, Dr. Rahman!
A complete list of publications is available.
Quality of Service Support for Fine-Grained Sharing on GPUs, Zhenning Wang, Jun Yang, Rami Melhem, Bruce R. Childers, Youtao Zhang and Minyi Guo, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Toronto, Canada, June 2017
On the Restore Time Variations of Future DRAM Memory, Xianwei Zhang, Youtao Zhang, Bruce R. Childers and Jun Yang, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2017
Restore Truncation for Performance Improvement in Future DRAM Systems, Xianwei Zhang, Youtao, Zhang, Bruce R. Childers and Jun Yang, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Barcelona, Spain, March 2016
Simultaneous Multikernel GPU: Multi-tasking Throughput Processors via Fine-Grained Sharing, Zhenning Wang, Jun Yang, Rami Melhem, Bruce R. Childers, Youtao Zhang and Minyi Guo, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Barcelona, Spain, March 2016
Supporting Superpages in Non-Contiguous Physical Memory, Yu Du, Miao Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, Daniel Mosse' and Rami Melhem, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, San Francisco, California, February 2015
COMeT+: Continuous Online Memory Testing with Multi-threading Extension Musfiq Rahman, Bruce R. Childers and Sangyeun Cho, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2014
Writeback-Aware Bandwidth Partitioning for Multi-core Systems with PCM, Miao Zhou, Yu Du, Bruce R. Childers, Rami Melhem, and Daniel Mosse', International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2013
Bit Mapping for Balanced PCM Programming, Yu Du, Miao Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, Daniel Mosse', and Rami Melhem International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2013
FPB: Fine-grained Power Budgeting to Improve Write Throughput of Multi-level Phase Change Memory, Lei Jiang, Youtao Zhang, Bruce R. Childers and Jun Yang, The 45th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposum on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Vancouver, Canada, December 2012
Improving Write Operations in MLC Phase Change Memory, Lei Jiang, Bo Zhao, Youtao Zhang, Jun Yang, and Bruce R. Childers, International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2012