My current research focuses on using operating system support to improve the performance and reliability of multithreaded applications running on commodity multicore machines.

Our goals are to help scale application performance to commodity (and future) multicore machines; provide simple semantics to all (including buggy and racy) programs; and make application behavior easier to reproduce and debug.

Publications

• ...and region serializability for all

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  Jessica Ouyang Peter Chen, Jason Flinn, and Satish Narayanasamy

  The 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar'13). San Jose, CA, June 2013.

• DoublePlay: Parallelizing sequential logging and replay

  Best paper award

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  Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Dongyoon Lee, Benjamin Wester, Jessica Ouyang Peter Chen, Jason Flinn, and Satish Narayanasamy

  The 2011 International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '11). Newport Beach, CA, March 2011.

Talks

• Epoch parallelism: one execution is not enough

  CCC Research Visions 2nd place (tied)

  [pdf| pptx| talk| ccc]

  Jessica Ouyang, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Dongyoon Lee, Peter Chen, Jason Flinn, and Satish Narayanasamy
  

  The 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '10) Research Visions. Vancouver, BC, October 2010.

Course Projects

• Speculative Cache Coherence

  [paper|poster]

  Jessica Ouyang and Abram Booth

  Advanced operating systems (EECS 582)

• Sequential consistency with epoch parallelism

  [paper]

  Jessica Ouyang

  Ubiquitous parallelism (EECS 598)

I was a teaching assistant for operating systems (EECS 482) in the fall 2011 semester.

I graduated in May 2010 from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in computer science. My senior design project was in computer game design, where we (Dave Retterath, Sarah Trombley, Bob Comsa, and I) made Last Stand.

I successfully completed my qualifying exam and became a PhD candidate. in January 2012 I received my M.S. in May 2012.

I enjoy reading and drawing; ballet and yoga.