Christopher J. Rossbach
- Associate Professor of Computer Science at the UT Austin
- Co-director of the Learning Directed Operating Systems (LDOS) project, an NSF CISE Expedition in Computing
- Co-founder of Katana Graph
- Senior Affiliated Researcher at VMware Research Group
- Former Member of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
- email: rossbach at cs dot utexas.edu
- phone: 415-596-8011
- interests: Operating systems,
virtualization, accelerators,
parallel architectures, concurrency, distributed systems - cv: [pdf]
Teaching
| Semester | Course Title | Course Number |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | Advanced Operating Systems | cs380l |
| Fall 2024 | Parallel Systems | cs380p |
| Spring 2024 | Advanced Operating Systems | cs380l |
| Fall 2023 | Concurrency | cs378 |
| Fall 2023 | Parallel Systems | cs380p |
| Spring 2023 | Honors Concurrency | cs378h |
| Fall 2022 | Advanced Operating Systems | cs380l |
Selected Publications
Towards a Machine Learning-Assisted Kernel with LAKE
Henrique Fingler, Isha Tarte, Hangchen Yu, Ariel Szekely, Bodun Hu, Aditya Akella, Christopher J Rossbach
ASPLOS 2023
Reconfigurable Virtual Memory for FPGA-Driven I/O
Joshua Landgraf, Matthew Giordano, Esther Yoon, Christopher J Rossbach
ASPLOS 2023
DGSF: Disaggregated GPUs for Serverless Functions
Henrique Fingler, Zhiting Zhu, Esther Yoon, Zhipeng Jia, Emmett Witchel, Christopher J Rossbach
IPDPS 2022
Compiler-driven FPGA Virtualization with Synergy
Joshua Landgraf,
Tiffany Yang,
William Lin,
Christopher J. Rossbach,
Eric Schkufza
ASPLOS 2021
AvA: Accelerated Virtualization of Accelerators
Hangchen Yu,
Arthur Michener Peters,
Amogh Akshintala,
Christopher J. Rossbach
ASPLOS 2020
Telekine: Secure Computing with Cloud GPUs
Tyler Hunt,
Zhipeng Jia,
Vance Miller,
Christopher J. Rossbach,
Emmett Witchel
NSDI 2020
Just-In-Time Compilation for Verilog - A New Technique for Improving the FPGA Programming Experience
Eric Schkufza,
Michael Wei,
Christopher J. Rossbach
ASPLOS 2019
A Framework for Memory Oversubscription Management in Graphics Processing Units
Chen Li,
Rachata Ausavarungnirun,
Christopher J. Rossbach,
Onur Mutlu,
Yang Guo,
Jun Yang
ASPLOS 2019
Sharing, Protection and Compatibility for Reconfigurable
Fabric with AmorphOS
Ahmed Khawaja,
Joshua Landgraf,
Rohith Prakash,
Michael Wei,
Eric Schkufza,
Christopher J. Rossbach
OSDI 2018
Coordinated and Efficient Huge Page Management with
Ingens
[pdf]
Youngjin Kwon,
Hangchen Yu,
Simon Peter,
Christopher J. Rossbach,
Emmett Witchel
OSDI 2016
Dandelion: a Compiler and Runtime for Heterogeneous Systems
[pdf]
Christopher J. Rossbach,
Yuan Yu,
Jon Currey,
Jean-Philippe Martin,
Dennis Fetterly
SOSP 2013
PTask: Operating System Abstractions To Manage GPUs as Compute Devices
[pdf]
Christopher J. Rossbach,
Jon Currey,
Mark Silberstein,
Baishakhi Ray,
Emmett Witchel
SOSP 2011
Service
- SOSP 2017, 2019, 2021
- OSDI 2016, 2020, 2022, 2023
- ASPLOS 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- NSDI 2021, 2021, 2022
- MICRO 2020, 2023
- ISCA 2024
- Usenix ATC 2017, 2018, 2019
- SoCC 2017, 2018
- HotOS 2017
- MaRS 2016, 2017
- WWW 2017, 2019
- VEE 2016, 2019
- Systor 2016
- Eurosys 2016, 2021
- PPoPP 2016
- SFMA 2012-2015, 2018
- IPDPS 2012, 2013
- GPGPU 2011, 2013
- TRANSACT 2010
Program Committee Chair:
- ASPLOS 2025
- VEE 2019
- SoCC 2018
- WWW Infrastructure and Systems Track 2017
- SFMA 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
- MaRS 2016, 2017
- OSDI Poster Session 2016
- Operating Systems Review (OSR) 2016-2023
Students
- Henrique Fingler
- Joshua Landgraf
- Vance Miller
- Ahmed Khawaja
- Taeklim Kim
- Yineng Yan
- Aditya Tewari
- Hangchen Yu
- Arthur Peters
- John Thywissen
Non-academic Pursuits
