Alan L. Cox
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
United States of America
Biography
"Prof. Cox received the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Since then he has been on the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. His research interests include parallel processing, computer architecture, distributed systems, concurrent programming, and performance evaluation.
Research Interest
Operating systems, computer architecture
Publications
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M. Scott and A. L. Cox, An Empirical Study of Message-Passing Overhead. In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 536--543, September 1987.
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C. McCurdy, A. L. Cox, and J. Vetter, Investigating the TLB Behavior of High-end Scientific Applications on Commodity Microprocessors.  The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Austin, TX, April, 2008.
