Trevor Brown

Trevor Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Previously, he held positions as an Assistant Professor at the same institution, and completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria under Dan Alistarh, and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology under Hagit Attiya. He earned his PhD from the University of Toronto under Faith Ellen's supervision, where he was part of the theory group.

His research focuses on concurrent data structures, particularly lock-free algorithms, transactional memory, non-volatile memory systems, and techniques for non-uniform memory architectures (NUMA). He leads the UW Multicore Lab, which explores high-performance parallel computing and distributed systems. His work emphasizes rigorous experimental validation and practical implementations, reflected in extensive open-source code repositories.

Brown has taught courses including CSC798 (Multicore Programming) and CSC341 (Algorithms), and has served as a teaching assistant for multiple computer science courses at the University of Toronto and York University. He maintains active collaborations through implementations of concurrent data structures (e.g., lock-free (a,b)-trees, B-slack trees) and benchmarks in the Setbench project.