David O'Hallaron is a Full Professor in Computer Science and
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.  He
received his Ph.D. from University of Virginia.  After a stint at GE,
he joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1989.
				   
Prof. O'Hallaron works in the broad area of computer systems, with
specific interests in scientific computing, data-intensive computing,
cloud computing and virtualization. He is currently leading the
Autolab project, which aims to develop a new capability for
autograding programming assignments on secure virtual machines. The
current system is being used by 2,500+ CMU students in 15+ courses
each semester.  He recently lead Carnegie Mellon Quake project (with
Jacobo Bielak), which is developing the capability to predict the
motion of the ground during strong earthquakes. He is also lead effort
at Intel Research to develop an open source cluster management system
for cloud computing on Big Data, and he developed systems such as
Internet Suspend/Resume that use virtual machines for user mobility
and enterprise client management.

In 1998 the CMU School of Computer Science awarded Prof. O'Hallaron
and the other members of the CMU Quake Project the Allen Newell Medal
for Research Excellence. In 2000, a benchmark he developed for the
Quake project, 183.equake, was selected by SPEC for inclusion in the
influential CPU2000 and CPU2000omp (Open MP) benchmark suites.  In
November, 2003, Prof. O'Hallaron and the other members of the Quake
team won the 2003 Gordon Bell Prize, the top international prize in
high performance computing. In 2004, he was awarded the Herbert Simon
Award for Teaching Excellence by the CMU School of Computer
Science. In 2005, he received the Outstanding Research Award from the
CMU College of Engineering. In 2006, Prof O'Hallaron and the other
members of the Quake project won the HPC Analytics Challenge at SC06,
beating out finalist teams from a DOE National Lab and a consortium of
Japanese companies and universities.

With Randy Bryant, he published a new computer systems textbook
(Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Prentice Hall, Second
Edition, 2011) that has been adopted by hundreds of schools worldwide.