Biography
Professor McKinley received her Ph.D. from Rice University working
with Ken Kennedy. Her research interests include compilers, memory
management, runtime systems, programming languages, debugging, and
architecture. She and her collaborators have produced a number of
tools that are in wide research and industrial use, e.g., the DaCapo
Java Benchmarks, the TRIPS Compiler, the Hoard memory manager, the
MMTk garbage collector toolkit, and the Immix garbage collection
algorithm. Her service includes serving as program chair for ASPLOS,
PACT, and PLDI; co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Programming
Language Systems (TOPLAS); and mentoring in and leading CRA-W programs
for under represented undergraduates and graduate students. She is
currently supervising eight PhD students, and has graduated ten PhD
students. McKinley is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM Fellow.