Derrick Coetzee

Graduate Student
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley
dcoetzee@eecs.berkeley.edu

Degrees and Timeline

Master of Science in Computer Science, Fall 2004, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Fall 2003, Georgia Institute of Technology

Aug 2009 -		Graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Apr 2007 - Aug 2009		Software developer in Operating Systems Group at Microsoft Research, primarily working on Singularity.
Dec 2004 - Apr 2007		Software developer on Microsoft Speech Server 2004R2.
Aug 2001 - Dec 2004		Student at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Publications

Summer 2011
- Shoaib Kamil, Derrick Coetzee, Armando Fox. Bringing Parallel Performance to Python with Domain-Specific Selective Embedded Just-in-Time Specialization. In Proceedings of the 10th Python in Science Conference (SCIPY 2011). July 2011. Video of Shoaib's talk.
2009
- Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Doug Burger, Benjamin Lee, and Derrick Coetzee. Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory. In Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09). ACM. October 2009.
2008
- Derrick Coetzee. TinyLex: static n-gram index pruning with perfect recall. In Proceeding of the 17th ACM Conference on information and Knowledge Management (Napa Valley, California, USA). CIKM '08. ACM, New York, NY, 409-418. October 2008. PowerPoint Slides.
- Juan Chen, Chris Hawblitzel, Frances Perry, Mike Emmi, Jeremy Condit, Derrick Coetzee, and Polyvios Pratikakis. Type-Preserving Compilation for Large-Scale Optimizing Object-Oriented Compilers. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (Tucson, AZ, USA), PLDI '08. ACM, New York, NY. 183-192. June 2008.

Submitted Publications

Summer 2011
- Shoaib Kamil, Derrick Coetzee, Scott Beamer, Henry Cook, Ekaterina Gonina, Jonathan Harper, Jeffrey Morlan, Armando Fox. Portable Parallel Performance from Sequential, Productive, Embedded Domain-Specific Languages. Submitted to: PPoPP 2011.

Rejected Publications

Spring 2011
- USENIX ATC 2011: apmake: A Reliable Parallel Build Manager. (Short paper submission)

Classes and Projects

Fall 2011

CS 260: Research Topics in HCI. Björn Hartmann.
CS 294-76: Communication-Avoiding Algorithms. James Demmel, Oded Schwartz.

Spring 2011

Graduate Student Instructor for CS 169: Software Engineering. George Necula.

Fall 2010

Spring 2010

Graduate Student Instructor for CS 186: Introduction to Databases. Joe Hellerstein.
CS 302: Designing Computer Science Education. Mike Clancy, Dan Garcia.
CS 301: Teaching Techniques for Computer Science. Brian A. Barsky.

Fall 2009

CS 261: Computer Security. David Wagner.
Final Project (with Kevin Klues, in collaboration with Daniel Wilkerson, Mark Winterrowd, and John Kubiatowicz): Evaluating Hard Object - a Lightweight Module Isolation System (PDF temporarily unavailable)
CS 265: Program Analysis, Testing, and Debugging. Koushik Sen.
Final Project: Accurate Fault Injection with Concolic Testing (PowerPoint slides)

Other projects

BSDMP: A BSD-licensed multiple precision arithmetic library. (work in progress)
scolorq: My implementation of Jan Puzicha et al's 1998 novel spatial color quantization scheme (for decreasing the color depth of an image).

Links

Derrick Coetzee, dcoetzee@eecs.berkeley.edu, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dcoetzee/.
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Last updated 2011 January 12.