Chris Rossbach

aka Christopher Rossbach
aka Christopher J Rossbach, Ph.D.

I am a researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

CV :: Thesis :: Research statement :: Teaching statement

Details:

• Current employment: Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

• Formerly, a post-doctoral researcher, and now a collaborator at the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Member of Operating Systems and Architecture Group with Professor Emmett Witchel, part of UTCS' Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research: LASR

• Research interests: transactional memory, parallel architecture, parallel computing, distributed systems

• Non-academic pursuits: www.rossbach.to

Contact:

Phone	: (650)693-2044
Email	: crossbac@microsoft.com, rossbach@cs.utexas.edu

Publications:

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Jon Currey, Mark Silberstein, Baishakhi Ray, Emmett Witchel
  PTask: Operating System Abstractions To Manage GPUs as Compute Devices
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Priniciples (SOSP), Cascais, Portugal, October 23-26, 2011
  [pdf] [one-col]  (e-reader "friendly")

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Jon Currey, Emmett Witchel
  Operating Systems must support GPU abstractions
  In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS '11) Napa, CA May 2011.

• Scott Wolchok*, Owen S. Hofmann*, Nadia Heninger, Edward W. Felten, J. Alex Halderman, Christopher J. Rossbach, Brent Waters, Emmett Witchel
  Defeating Vanish with Low-Cost Sybil Attacks Against Large DHTs
  In Proceedings of the 17th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, California February, 2010
  *Both authors contributed equally

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
  Is Transactional Memory Programming Actually Easier?
  (PDF paper)(slides ppt pdf)
  To appear in Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), Bangalore, India, January 2010

• Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Alex Benn, Emmett Witchel
  Operating System Transactions
  (PDF paper)(slides ppt pdf)
  In Proceedings of the  22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Big Sky, MT October 2009

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
  Is Transactional Memory Programming Actually Easier?
  (PDF paper)(slides ppt pdf)
  In Proceedings of the  8th Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD), Austin, Texas June 2009

• Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett Witchel
  Maximum Benefit from a Minimal HTM
  In International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-XIV), Washington DC, March 2009

• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett Witchel
  Dependence-Aware Transactions for Increased Concurrency. 
  (slides ppt PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Lake Como, Italy November 2008.

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter,  Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  TxLinux/MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System In Communications of the ACM September 2008 (slides ppt PDF)
• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter,  Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System SOSP '07 (slides ppt PDF)
• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System (PDF paper)
  In IEEE Micro, Jan/Feb 2008.
• Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, and Emmett Witchel
  Solving Difficult HTM Problems Without Difficult Hardware (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT), Portland, OR, August 16, 2007.

• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2007, San Diego, CA, June, 2007.

• Jungwoo Ha, Christopher J. Rossbach, Jason V. Davis, Indrajit Roy, David L. Chen, Hany E. Ramadan, and Emmett Witchel
  Improved Error Reporting for Software that Uses Black Box Components (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2007, San Diego, CA, June, 2007.

• Jason V. Davis, Jungwoo Ha, Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, and Emmett Witchel
  Cost-Sensitive Decision Tree Learning for Forensic Classification (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the The 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), Berlin, Germany, September 2006.

• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, and Emmett Witchel
  The Linux Kernel: A Challenging Workload for Transactional Memory (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Transactional Memory Workloads (WTW), Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.

• Jungwoo Ha, Hany Ramadan, Jason V. Davis, Christopher Rossbach, Indrajit Roy, and Emmett Witchel
  Navel: Automating Software Support by Classifying Program Behavior (PDF paper)
  The University of Texas at Austin, CS Technical Report TR-06-11, Austin, TX, March 2006.

• Abbas Rafii, Chris Rossbach, Peter Zhao
  RGB-Z: Mapping a Sparse Depth Map to a High Resolution RGB Camera Image
  CVPR (2) 2005: