Amy Ousterhout

Amy Ousterhout is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to UCSD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley's NetSys Lab and earned her Ph.D. from MIT CSAIL in 2019, where she was advised by Hari Balakrishnan and Adam Belay. She received her B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Her research focuses on designing efficient, high-performance systems for datacenter applications, including CPU scheduling (Shenango, Caladan, Scheduling Policies), memory management (Cornflakes, Eden, Fastswap), and leveraging new hardware features (xUI, Aspen). She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses such as CSE 221 (Graduate Operating Systems), CSE 291 (Operating Systems in Datacenters), and CSE 120 (Operating Systems Principles).

Her publications span conferences like NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP, HotOS, CIDR, EuroSys, HotCloud, and SIGCOMM, with notable awards including the Best Paper Award at NSDI 2025. Her work explores microsecond-scale task scheduling, zero-copy serialization, far memory efficiency, and hardware-aware software design.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Paper Award, NSDI 2025

Advising: She advises students such as Liam Arzola, Ani Canumalla, and Linsong Guo, with a focus on systems research and datacenter optimization.