Rob Lyerly
Research Scientist at Meta
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRob Lyerly is a Research Scientist with 13 years of experience focused on the hardware-software boundary, specializing in computer systems and systems software spanning operating systems, runtimes, compilers, and heterogeneous architectures. He holds advanced degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) from Virginia Tech and has combined deep academic research with production-focused work at Meta/Facebook since 2019. His background includes machine-learning-driven optimization for streaming platforms during internships at IBM, demonstrating a knack for applying ML to systems problems. At Virginia Tech he concentrated on systems software for heterogeneous platforms, signaling expertise in performance, scheduling, and cross-layer co-design. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous research methods with pragmatic engineering to push novel runtime and compiler ideas toward real-world deployment.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
linux10
popcorn10
toolchain10
cpp8
compiler8
caching7
concurrency7
ncurses6
simulator6
ubuntu6
profiling5
kernel4
windows4
instrumentation3
linux-kernel3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ssrg-vt/popcorn-compiler
Jun 2016 - Jul 2020
Popcorn Linux compiler toolchain for heterogeneous-ISA execution
Contributions:729 commits, 7 PRs, 81 pushes in 4 years 2 months
compilerlinuxtoolchainpopcorn
ssrg-vt/popcorn-chameleon
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Secure Popcorn Linux runtime state transformation framework
Contributions:98 commits, 1 push in 2 years
linux
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