Hany E. Ramadan

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Bio ...

• I'm a PhD Student at the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

• I'm doing research as part of Prof. Emmett Witchel's Operating Systems Architecture group.

• My research interests include concurrency, transactions and software systems.

• Before joining UT, I was a software design engineer with Microsoft Corp.

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Publications ...

• Hany E. Ramadan, Indrajit Roy, Maurice Herlihy and Emmett Witchel
  How to Commit Conflicting Transactions in an STM
  To appear in Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Prallel Programming (PPOPP), Raleigh, North Carolina, February 14-18, 2009.

• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach and Emmett Witchel
  Dependence-Aware Transactional Memory for Increased Concurrency (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41), Lake Como, Italy, November 8-12, 2008.

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Aditya Bhandari and Emmett Witchel
  TxLinux and MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System (PDF paper)
  In Communications of the ACM, September 2008

• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Aditya Bhandari and Emmett Witchel
  MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System (PDF paper)
  In IEEE Micro (Top Picks 2008), January 2008

• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari and Emmett Witchel
  TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System
  In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Stevenson, WA, October 14-17, 2007.

• Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan and Emmett Witchel
  Solving Difficult HTM Problems Without Difficult Hardware (PDF paper coming soon)
  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 and 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 coming soon)
  In Proceedings of the Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2007, San Diego, CA, June, 2007.

• Hany E. Ramadan
  Abort, Retry, Litigate: Dependable Systems and Contract Law (PDF paper)
  In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), Seattle, WA, November 2006.

• 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.

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Updated November 2008.