Amittai F. Aviram

• Address: 243 West 135th Street, Apt. 5A, New York, NY 10030-2847.
• Phone: 646 483 2639.
• E-mail: amittai dot aviram at yale dot edu .
• Web: www.amittai.com.
• Citizenship: USA.

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Education

• Yale University: PhD, Computer Science, expected 2012.
  • Dissertation topic: A Deterministic OpenMP.
  • Advisor: Bryan Ford
  • Area: Systems.
  • MS: May, 2008.
• Columbia University: BS, Computer Science, May 2006. (See Honors below.) GPA: 3.86
• University of South Carolina: Coursework in mathematics and computer science, June 2003 – August 2004. GPA: 4.0.
• Yale University: Ph.D., English Language and Literature, December, 1984. (Yale has no GPA.) aa
• Columbia University: B.A., English and Comparative Literature, Magna cum Laude, May, 1978. GPA: 3.86

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Computer Science Publications and Talks

Please see my research home page for downloadable copies and other information.

• A. Aviram, B. Ford. Deterministic OpenMP for Race-Free Parallelism. HotPar '11.
• A. Aviram, S. Hu, S. Weng, B. Ford. Efficient System-Enforced Deterministic Parallelism. OSDI '10. Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.
• A. Aviram, S. Hu, B. Ford, R. Gummadi. Determinating Timing Channels in Compute Clouds. CCSW 2010.
• A. Aviram. DOMP: Deterministic OpenMP. OSDI '10 Poster Session.
• A. Aviram. DOMP: Deterministic OpenMP. Vancouver Systems Colloquium, University of British Columbia, October 7, 2010.

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Honors

• New York City Turing Fellows 2011 finalist.
• Russell C. Mills Award in Computer Science, Columbia University, 2006.
• Columbia University School of General Studies Honor Society, inducted 2006.
• Fulbright Senior Scholarship, Bamberg, Germany, 2000-2001.
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Humanities Center, Cornell University, 1986-87.
• Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1983-84.

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Software Development Experience

• Google, Inc. New York, NY. May 2011 – September 2011 (summer internship).
  • Project: Tool for reporting data on high-latency operations in the distributed storage infrastructure
  • Concept, design, documentation, and coding (C++).
• Google, Inc. New York, NY. May 2010 – August 2010 (summer internship).
  • Project: Complete integration testing framework for Floodlight advertisement tracking server, inserted into automatic continuous build system. (Python, Google development tools)
  • Parallelization of XFA integration test setup. (Python, Google development tools)
• Ellington Management Group, LLC. Old Greenwich, CT. May 2007 – August 2007 (summer internship).
  • Project: Web services infrastructure. Parsing and compilation of proprietary-language interface descriptions into C# types. Runtime serialization, deserialization, and synchronous and asynchronous message handling. (C#)
• Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA, May 2006 – August 2006 (summer internship).
  • Project: Inferring a context-free grammar from the object code of a hand-coded parser, using Microsoft's new Phoenix compiler framework. (C++.NET)
• Two Toads, Inc. Columbia, SC, August 2002-June 2003.
  • Online sales and tech support tracking tools. (LAMP)
  • Instant text message filtering system. (C++ DLL)
• Hunter Stone, Inc. Columbia, SC, June-July 2002.
  • Specifications for tool to extend Visual Studio .NET IDE.
• IT for People. Bamberg, Germany, October 2000-June 2001.
  • Specifications for database-driven online website editing tool. Implementation of complex GUI for Active-X control. (JavaScript, ASP)

Academic and Other Projects

• Yale University. New Haven, CT, September 2006 – Present.
  • Research project (current): System-level runtime enforcement of parallel determinism in multithreaded applications. (C, Unix systems)
  • Summer project: Revision of PubNet Web application code base and addition of features. (Perl)
  • Course project: Retrieval of background information for scientific papers in XML. (Python)
  • Course project: Semantic clustering of Web search results. (Python)
  • Course project: Automatic species counterpoint using Haskore. (Haskell)
• Columbia University. New York, NY, January 2005 – May 2006.
  • Research project: Computational representation of Arabic morphology. Contributions to project specifications and implementation. (Perl)
  • Programming Languages and Translators course project: Translator from Quantum Computing Assembly Language (QASM) to Quantum Computing Operations Language (QPOL). Website. (C)
• OPERA at USC (volunteer). University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, May 2001-July 2002.
  • Director's Helper: online applicant and finance tracking tool with database. (Perl)
  • Online auditions scheduling tool. (LAMP)
  • Webmastering (all-new website).
• Independent projects
  • Quizmaker: online multiple-choice testing and grading software. Developed and used in teaching, University of South Carolina, 2001-2002. (C, CGI, MySQL)
  • JavaScript German Flash Cards: representation of German verb inflectional system in rules and algorithms. Developed 2001.

Computer Skills

• Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python, PHP, JavaScript, ML, Haskell, SQL, LaTeX, R.
• Technologies: Linux, Windows XP, MySQL, MS Visual Studio, Maple, ASP.

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Human Languages

Spanish, French, Italian, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Old English.

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Positions Held

• Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, 1992-2004.
  • Comparative Literature Program Core Faculty.
  • Linguistics Program Consulting Faculty.
  • Creative Writing Program.
• Assistant Professor, 1984-1992. On leave, 1986-1988; fall 1994.
• Medical Research Writer (on leave from USC), Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York, 1987-1988.
• Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Fellow (on leave from USC), Cornell University, 1986-1987.
• Instructor and Prize Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 1983-1984; Teaching Fellow, 1981-83.

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Other Activities

Poetry, viola (chamber music), music composition, ballet and modern dance, fitness, swimming, long-distance running.

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References

Please contact amittai dot aviram at yale dot edu for current references.