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Prof. Nir Shavit
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Primary DLC
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT Room:
32-G622
(617) 324-8440
shanir@csail.mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Multiprocessors
Parallel Computing
Multicore Programming
Concurrent Data Structures
Shared Memory Computability and Complexity
Techniques for Designing, Implementing, and Reasoning About Multiprocessors (In Particular the Design of Concurrent Data Structures for Multi-Core Machines)
Introduction and First Implementation of Software Transactional Memory
Research Summary
Professor Shavit's main interests are techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, in particular concurrent data structures for multicore machines, and the mathematical foundations of the shared memory computation model that governs their behavior.
Recent Work
Projects
January 30, 2017
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
New Tools for Extracting Neuronal Phenotypes from a Volumetric Set of Cerebral Cortex Images
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 25, 2017
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
High-Thoughput Connectomics
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 25, 2017
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Run-Time Support for Scalable Concurrent Programming
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
October 26, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Exiguous Optogenetic Circuits
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
October 26, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computational Connectomics Group (CCG): Mapping the Structure of Thought
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
October 26, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
High Throughput Connectomics Exiguous Optogenetic Circuits
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 30, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Multicore Algorithmics Group (MAG)
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 30, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
StackTrack: New Concurrent Memory Reclamation
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 30, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Relaxed Concurrent Data-Structures
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 30, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Foundations of Concurrency
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
January 30, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Hybrid Transactional Memory
Principal Investigator
Nir Shavit
Related Faculty
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Sunlin (1966) and Priscilla Chou Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Emeritus
Samantha Joellyn Gunter
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