Donald E. Porter a.k.a. Don Porter Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. Computer Science Department 1434 Computer Science Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794 porter [at] cs {dot} stonybrook (dot) edu Phone: (631) 632-8448 Fax: (631) 632-8334 Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010. M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007. B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Hendrix College, 2003.

My research develops better abstractions for managing concurrency and security, primarily in the operating system, and extends these abstractions to other portions of the technology stack as appropriate.

I am the ringleader of the Operating systems, Security, Concurrency, and Architecture Research (OSCAR) Lab.

Selected Publications (complete publications)

TxBox: Building Secure, Efficient Sandboxes with System Transactions
Suman Jana, Donald E. Porter, and Vitaly Shmatikov	[PDF]	Oakland '11
Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down
Donald E. Porter, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Jon Howell, Reuben Olinsky, and Galen Hunt	[PDF]	ASPLOS '11
Operating System Transactions
Donald E. Porter, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, December 2010.	[PDF]
Winner, Bert Kay Dissertation Award from the UT Department of Computer Science.
Understanding Transactional Memory Performance
Donald E. Porter and Emmett Witchel	[PDF]	ISPASS '10
Operating System Transactions
Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J Rossbach, Alexander Benn, and Emmett Witchel	[PDF]	SOSP '09

Courses

Projects

• TxOS - Adding transactions to the system call API.
• Laminar - Practical, fine-grained decentralized information flow control (DIFC) support in both the JVM and Linux kernel.
• Syncchar - Analyzing and tuning the performance of transactional memory workloads.
• MetaTM/TxLinux - Using hardware transactional memory in the OS kernel.

Program Committees

• SYSTOR 2012

Other

• Software
• Documentation
• Erdős Number (4)
• My Academic Genealogy