Emery Berger

Emery Berger is a Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the flagship campus of the UMass system.12 He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002.2

Research and Contributions

Berger's research focuses on programming languages, runtime systems, and operating systems, with an emphasis on improving reliability, security, and performance.2 He has created influential software systems, including:

• Hoard: A fast and scalable memory manager used by major companies and influencing Mac OS X's memory manager2
• DieHard: An error-avoiding memory manager that influenced Windows 7's Fault-Tolerant Heap2
• DieHarder: A secure memory manager that inspired hardening changes in the Windows 8 heap2

Awards and Recognition

Berger has received numerous awards for his work:

• PLDI Most Influential Paper Award (2016)1
• ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award (2019)1
• OOPSLA Most Influential Paper Award (2012)2
• NSF CAREER Award2
• Microsoft Research Fellowship2

Additional Roles

• Co-director of the PLASMA research lab2
• Member of the UMass CS Security Group2
• Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services (AWS)13

Berger is also known for creating and maintaining the CSrankings website, which ranks computer science departments.2