Emery Berger
Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmery Berger is a distinguished professor and systems researcher now on sabbatical as an Amazon Scholar at AWS, with a Ph.D. from UT Austin and over two decades of impact in programming languages, runtime systems, and operating systems. He designs practical systems that transparently boost reliability, security, and performance, and has produced widely deployed tools such as the Hoard allocator, DieHard/DieHarder, and BLeak—work that influenced Mac OS X, Windows heaps, and Android’s SDK. A prolific collaborator and seven-time Microsoft Research visitor, he blends deep theory with production-minded engineering and has earned ACM Fellowship and multiple Most Influential and Best Paper awards. He also curates CSrankings.org, shaping how the community evaluates computer science research. Less obvious: his career spans work in embedded parallel systems and international teaching, reflecting a rare combination of low-level systems expertise, broad academic leadership, and global perspective.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
diploma, diploma at Lake Mary High SchoolPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of MiamiComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Kent
Spanish, Catalan, French
Github Skills (10)
scene6
plugin6
usd5
autodesk5
maya5
google-chrome-extension3
chrome-extension2
google-chrome2
chrome2
color-picker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sophiaberger/sophiaberger.github.io
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
adevakumar/fridge_helper_app
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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