Brian Railing
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Brian Railing is an associate teaching professor in the Computer Science Department.
His technical research interests are the efficient instrumentation and analysis of parallel programs
using architecture and compiler techniques.
He also continually studies and analyzes his teaching, as part of a continual effort to improve
student learning and the efficiency of their classroom experience. This effort focuses on the usage
of active learning techniques in systems courses.
He likes to play soccer, bicycle, and climb mountains. And take photos too.
He can be contacted at bpr at cs dot cmu dot edu.
He maintains a blog, Elegant C, which reflects his
own personal opinions and experiences in Computer Science.
Possible student research projects are maintained
in a wiki.
He also serves as the director of the
Computer Systems Concentration.
Office: GHC 6005 |
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Teaching
Spring 2020
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-410 / 605 Operating System Design and Implementation
Fall 2019
15-213 / 513 / 18-213 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-418 Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Summer 2019
15-213 / 513 / 18-213 Introduction to Computing Systems
Spring 2019
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-410 / 605 Operating System Design and Implementation
Fall 2018
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-418 Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Summer 2018
15-213 / 513 / 18-213 Introduction to Computing Systems
Spring 2018
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-410 / 605 Operating System Design and Implementation
Fall 2017
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-418 Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Summer 2017
15-213 / 513 / 18-213 Introduction to Computing Systems
Spring 2017
Parental Leave
Fall 2016
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-418 Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Summer 2016
15-213 / 513 / 18-213 Introduction to Computing Systems
Spring 2016
15-213 / 513 Introduction to Computing Systems
15-418 Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming
Presentations
SIGCSE'19 BoF - How can we make office hours better?
SIGCSE'18 BoF - Active Learning in Systems Courses
LLVM-Performance @ CGO'17 - Improving LLVM Instrumentation Overheads or PDF
SC'15 Doctoral Symposium - CONTECH: PARALLEL PROGRAM REPRESENTATION AND HIGH PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENTATION
IISWC'15 Tutorial - Contech
Publications
Using Active-Learning Techniques in Mixed Undergraduate / Graduate Courses (abstract only).
Brian P. Railing.
In Proceedings of the 46th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA
Extrapolation Pitfalls When Evaluating Limited Endurance Memory
Rishiraj A. Bheda, Jesse G. Beu, Brian P. Railing, Thomas M. Conte.
IEEE 20th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) August 2012
Parallel Pattern Detection for Architectural Improvements
Jason A Poovey, Brian P Railing, Thomas M Conte.
Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar) May 2011
Posters
Srikanth, S., Railing, B. P., and Conte, T. M.
"Dynamically reconfiguring multi-core architectures using task graph based analysis,"
in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation,
PACT '15, (New York, NY, USA), ACM, 2015.
Student Projects
David Vernet and Brian P. Railing. JCoz: A causal Java profiler. In Student
Research Competition at the 2017 International Symposium on Code Generation and
Optimization, New York, NY, USA, 2017. ACM
Other Writings
PhD Dissertation, Dec 2015
Patents
7,783,811 - Efficient Interrupt Message Definition
7,788,435 - Interrupt Redirection with Coalescing
8,024,504 - Processor interrupt determination
Last Modified: Oct 03, 2019
