The Hompage of Yossi Lev

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Brown University, and my advisor is Prof. Maurice Herlihy.
I am also an intern in the Scalable Synchronization Research Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
I currently live in New York City.

Email: levyossi AT cs.brown.edu

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Research Interest

My main interest are multiprocessor synchronization and concurrent programming.
More specifically, I'm interested in developing and exploring robust easy-to-use
infrastructures for concurrent programming, like Transactional Memory, and also
in developing optimized ad-hoc solutions for widely used concurrent data structures.

Publications

Journal

Special Issue of DISC 2004: A Dynamic-Sized Nonblocking Workstealing Deque [Distributed Computing 2006]
Danny Hendler, Yossi Lev, Mark Moir and Nir Shavit
[paper]

Conferences

tm_db: A Generic Debugging Library for Transactional Programs [PACT 2009]
Maurice Herlihy and Yossi Lev
[paper] [slides: keynote pdf]

Scalable Reader-Writer Locks [to appear in SPAA 2009]
Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco and Marek Olszewski
[paper]

Early Experience with a Commercial Hardware Transactional Memory Implementation [ASPLOS 2009]
Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Mark Moir and Dan Nussbaum
[paper]

Split Hardware Transactions: True Nesting of Transactions Using Best-Effort Hardware Transactional Memory [Best paper award in PPoPP 2008]
Yossi Lev and Jan-Willem Maessen
[paper] [slides]

SNZI: Scalable Non-Zero Indicators [PODC 2007]
Faith Ellen, Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, and Mark Moir
[paper] [slides]

A Simple Optimistic skip-list Algorithm [SIROCCO 2007] (breif announcement in OPODIS 2006)
Maurice Herlihy, Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Nir Shavit
[paper] [slides]

Hybrid Transactional Memory [ASPLOS 2006]
Peter Damron, Alexandra Fedorova, Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, and Dan Nussbaum
[paper] [slides]

Dynamic Circular Work-Stealing Deque [SPAA 2005]
David Chase and Yossi Lev
[paper] [slides]

Dynamic Memory ABP Work-Stealing [DISC 2004]
Danny Hendler, Yossi Lev and Nir Shavit
[paper][slides]

Workshops and Posters

Anatomy of a Scalable Software Transactional Memory [TRANSACT 2009]
Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Virendra Marathe, Mark Moir, Dan Nussbaum and Marek Olszewski
[paper] [slides]

Applications of the Adaptive Transactional Memory Test Platform [TRANSACT 2008]
Dave Dice, Maurice Herlihy, Doug Lea, Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Wayne Mesard, Mark Moir, Kevin Moore and Dan Nussbaum
[paper] [slides]

Integrating Transactional Memory into C++ [TRANSACT 2007]
Lawrence Crowl, Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, and Dan Nussbaum
[paper] [slides]

PhTM: Phased Transactional Memory [TRANSACT 2007]
Yossi Lev, Mark Moir, and Dan Nussbaum
[paper] [slides]

Debugging with Transactional Memory [TRANSACT 2006]
Yossi Lev and Mark Moir
[paper] [slides]

Towards a Safer Interaction with Transactional Memory [SCOOL 2005]
Yossi Lev and Jan-Willem Maessen
[paper] [slides]

Fast Read Sharing Mechanism For Software Transactional Memory [poster in PODC 2005]
Yossi Lev and Mark Moir
[paper]

Other Presentations

Debugging Transactional Programs [Talk in IPP Symposium on Standardizing Transactional Memory, April 2009]
Yossi Lev
[slides: keynote pdf]

Preparing Debuggers for Transactional Programs [Talk in Dagstuhl Seminar, June 2008]
Yossi Lev
[slides (pdf)]