Stephanie Wang

Stephanie Wang is an incoming Assistant Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, starting in fall 2024. She focuses on distributed systems, software/hardware systems, and programming languages for scalable application development.

• University: University of Washington
• School: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
• Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
• Email: smwang@cs.washington.edu

Her research emphasizes creating intermediate abstractions for high-performance, fault-tolerant systems in challenging domains like machine learning and data processing. She also explores programming languages as interfaces for distributed systems.

Key publication trends include distributed memory management (2023), extensible shuffle architectures (2023), fault-tolerant collective communication (2021), and formal verification of file systems (2017). Subfields span memory disaggregation, task scheduling, real-time ML, and crash-safe system design.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Distinguished Artifact Award (SOSP 2019)

Notable contributions to the Ray open-source project and its application in training large language models like ChatGPT.