Charlie Curtsinger

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Overview

I am a fourth year MS/PhD graduate student in the Computer Science department. I work with Emery Berger in the PLASMA research group. You can read more about what I'm up to on my blog.

Research

I am interested in improving the reliability and performance of existing software concurrent programs, and in improving the quality of performance evaluation and understanding.

• Stabilizer: Statistically Rigorous Performance Evaluation

  Stablizer is a compiler pass and runtime system that eliminates measurement bias, enabling rigorous performance evaluation using standard statistical techniques. Stabilizer uses LLVM to enable dynamic random placement of code, stack, heap, and globals for C and C++ applications.

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• AutoMan: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation

  AutoMan is a platform for integrating human-based and digital computation. It allows programmers to "program with people," which appear to the programmer to be ordinary function calls. AutoMan automatically handles details like quality control, payment, and task scheduling. It is currently implemented as a domain-specific language embedded in Scala, and uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk as a backend. AutoMan was presented by Dan Barowy at OOSLA in October 2012.

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• DThreads: Efficient and Deterministic Multithreading

  I worked with Tongping Liu on Dthreads, a drop-in replacement for pthreads that guarantees determininstic execution of parallel programs. Dthreads was presented at SOSP in October 2011.

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• Zozzle: Low-overhead Mostly Static JavaScript Malware Detection

  As an intern at Microsoft Research, I worked with Ben Zorn, Ben Livshits, and Christian Seifert to build Zozzle. Zozzle uses an efficient statistical classifier to identify JavaScript malware. Zozzle is currently deployed as part of the Bing infrastructure. This work appeared at USENIX Security in August 2011.

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Experience

• Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson, Summer 2012.
• Associate Researcher, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2011 to present.
• Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts, 2009 to present.
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Summer 2010.

Education

• B.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 2009.

Awards

• Google PhD Research Fellowship for Software Performance, 2012
• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2010.
• Honorable Mention, NSF Gradaute Research Fellowship Program, 2009.