Emmett Witchel

Emmett Witchel is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, with research spanning computer architecture, systems, networking, security, and privacy. His work focuses on low-level systems optimization and secure concurrent execution.

• Research Interests: Concurrent systems, secure execution environments, GPU integration, distributed systems.
• Teaching: CS 380L (Advanced Operating Systems), CS 371M (Mobile Computing).

Scientific Awards:

• Runner-up Best Paper, ASPLOS 2013
• Runner-up Award for Outstanding Research, USENIX Symposium 2012
• IEEE Micro Top Pick Award 2007
• ACM Honorable Mention 2004
• George M. Sprowls Award, MIT EECS 2004

Recent Publications demonstrate leadership in CXL pod databases (Tigon), stateful serverless computing (Boki), SmartNIC-accelerated file systems (LineFS), and GPU security (Telekine). His work bridges hardware-software co-design and practical systems implementation.