Derrick Greenspan

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Central Florida

Greetings! I am Dr. Derrick Greenspan. I am a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Dr. Jongouk Choi's lab.
I graduated with my PhD in Computer Science in May 2024 from UCF as a member of the ARPERS lab.
I also obtained my Bachelors in Computer Science in Fall 2016, and my Masters in Computer Science in Spring 2019 at UCF as well, which makes me an "Ultimate Knight".

My work focuses on persistent memory (PM) support in Operating Systems and compilers.

My advisors during my PhD career were Dr. Mark Heinrich and Dr. Yan Solihin.

My CV can be found here.

Publications

2019 - LLAMA -- An LLVM Pass and Library for Automatically Determining Memory Allocations (Paper, Bibtex) -- The International Symposium on Memory Systems, 2019 (MEMSYS 2019)
2022 - Improving the Security and Programmability of Persistent Memory Objects (Paper, Bibtex, Presentation) -- 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED 2022)
2023 - A brief primer on Persistent Memory Objects (Extended Abstract, Poster) -- The 14th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2023)
2024 - LOaPP: Improving the performance of Persistent Memory Objects via Low-Overhead at-rest PMO Protection (Paper, Bibtex) -- The 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED 2024)
2025 - Low-Overhead Security Protection for at-Rest PMOs (Paper) -- The 16th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2025)

Contact

The best way to contact me is via email.
E-mail: derrick.greenspan(at)ucf.edu!

News

The NVMW 2025 extended abstract is now available! - March, 2025
The LOaPP paper is now available! - November, 2024
I have joined Dr. Jongouk Choi's lab at the University of Central Florida! - May, 2024
I have successfully defended my dissertation! - March, 2024
I am scheduled to defend my dissertation on March 28, 2024 at 3PM! The announcement can be found here. It will also be available over Zoom, if you would like to watch it there, please email me!
My paper, LOaPP: Improving the performance of Persistent Memory Objects via Low-Overhead at-rest PMO Protection, is due to appear in the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design! - January, 2024
My paper, Improving the Security and Programmability of Persistent Memory Objects, is now available. - July, 2023
Paper To Be Presented at SEED '22! - September, 2022
Joining ARPERS Effective End of Month! - October, 2020