I am an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. I was previously at Illinois Tech. My research interests span several areas in systems including OS, computer architecture, embedded systems, system security, and virtualization. A current focus is the design of specialized system software stacks for parallel and emerging computing applications. I am a member of the HiPCastor group at OSU. You can see my publications below.

I have been fortunate to receive the NSF CAREER award (2023-2028), as well as the IIT College of Computing’s Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research awards.

I received my PhD from Northwestern University, where I worked with Peter Dinda. Before that I received my B.S. in computer science from UT Austin.

If you’re an undergrad considering research or going to grad school, you should take a look at this page.

Interests
  • Operating Systems & Virtualization
  • Distributed Systems
  • High-Performance & Parallel Computing
  • Computer Architecture
  • System Security

Recent Papers

ASPLOS '24 TrackFM: Far-out Compiler Support for a Far Memory World
Brian R. Tauro, Brian Suchy, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda, Kyle C. Hale
Middleware '22 Bolt: Fast Inference for Random Forests
Eduardo Romero, Christopher Stewart, Angela Li, Kyle C. Hale, Nathaniel Morris
TPDS 33(6); 2022 Modeling Speedup in Multi-OS Environments
Brian Tauro, Conghao Liu, Kyle C. Hale
EuroSys '22 Isolating Functions at the Hardware Limit with Virtines
Giles Muller Best Artifact Award Undergraduate Research
Nicholas C. Wanninger, Joshua J. Bowden, Kirtankumar Shetty, Ayush Garg, Kyle C. Hale
MASCOTS '21 Extremely Fine-grained Parallelism via Scalable Concurrent Queues on Modern Many-core Architectures
Poornima Nookala, Peter Dinda, Kyle C. Hale, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu
ROSS '21 The Case for an Interwoven Parallel Hardware/Software Stack
Kyle C. Hale, Simone Campanoni, Nikos Hardavellas, Peter A. Dinda
APSys '21 Coalescent Computing
Kyle C. Hale
PDADS '21 Memory Mapping and Parallelizing Random Forests for Speed and Cache Efficiency
Eduardo Romero-Gainza, Christopher Stewart, Angela Li, Kyle C. Hale, Nathaniel Morris
DaMoN '21 Playing Fetch with CAT: Composing Cache Partitioning and Prefetching for Task-Based Query Processing
Qitian Zeng, Kyle C. Hale, Boris Glavic
Tech Report A Look at Communication-Intensive Performance in Julia
Amal Rizvi, Kyle C. Hale
See all publications

News

Jamie receives ACM student research award at SC '23!
Jamie won third place in the ACM student research competition at the Supercomputing ‘23 conference. His work focuses on Python Unikernels for HPC. Congrats Jamie!
Jamison Kerney, Kyle C. Hale, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Kyle Chard
Last updated on Nov 20, 2023
Jamie receives ACM student research award at SC '23!
TrackFM paper accepted to ASPLOS '24!
Brian’s paper on using compilers to automatically transform applications to use disaggregated memory has been accepted to ASPLOS ‘24. Congratulations Brian on this well-deserved achievement and thanks to our wonderful collaborators at Northwestern University!
Brian Tauro, Brian Suchy, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda, Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 30, 2023
Wang, Sun, Hale, and Jiang at UIowa win NSF award!
A team of three IIT faculty (Rujia Wang, Kyle Hale, and Xian-He Sun) and a collaborator at the University of Iowa, Peng Jiang won a $1M award from NSF to investigate novel architectures for next-generation systems integrating near-data processing.
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
Wang, Sun, Hale, and Jiang at UIowa win NSF award!
HExSA Lab awarded NSF CAREER grant!
Thanks to tons of hard work from HExSA Lab members, I am incredibly honored to have been awarded the NSF CAREER grant! Many thanks to NSF, to all my collaborators, mentors, colleagues, and most of all to my wonderful students!
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Mar 10, 2023
HExSA Lab awarded NSF CAREER grant!
EuroSys '22 Virtines paper wins best artifact award
The team was awarded the Distinguished Artifact Award at EuroSys ‘22. Great work everyone! The code is available here.
Nicholas Wanninger, Josh Bowden, Kirtankumar Shetty, Ayush Garg, Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Mar 4, 2023
See all

Teaching

CS/ECE 472: Computer Architecture
Current Iteration: Fall ‘24 (Canvas)
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Oct 2, 2024
CS/ECE 472: Computer Architecture
CSP 544: System and Network Security
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Fall ‘23 Spring ‘22 Spring ‘20
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Oct 2, 2024
CSP 544: System and Network Security
CS 595: Advanced Topics in Serverless and Edge Computing
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Spring ‘23 Fall ‘21
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
CS 595: Advanced Topics in Serverless and Edge Computing
CS 450: Operating Systems
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Fall ‘22 Fall ‘20 Spring ‘19
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Mar 4, 2023
CS 450: Operating Systems
CS 492: Introduction to CS Research
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Fall ‘22
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
CS 492: Introduction to CS Research
See all

Funding

Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Towards A Unified Memory-centric Computing System with Cross-layer Support
NSF Award CNS-2310422; $886,226 ($1M collaborative total); October 2023 through September 2026. This project is a collaborative effort with Rujia Wang and Xian-He Sun at IIT and Peng Jiang at the University of Iowa.
Rujia Wang, Xian-He Sun, Kyle C. Hale, Peng Jiang
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Towards A Unified Memory-centric Computing System with Cross-layer Support
CAREER: Colony: A Framework for Bespoke Virtual Execution Contexts
CNS Award CNS-2239757; $632,214; May 2023 through April 2028. Vulnerabilities present in software running on shared computing infrastructure (e.g., cloud datacenters) can result in significant economic losses, compromised user data, and weakened national security when such infrastructure does not properly separate programs from one another in secure, isolated compartments.
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Apr 28, 2023
CAREER: Colony: A Framework for Bespoke Virtual Execution Contexts
REU Site: Collaborative Research: BigDataX: From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales
NSF Award OAC-2150500; $362,878 (Collaborative Total: $400K); July 2022 through June 2025. This project is in collaboration with Ioan Raicu at IIT as well as Kyle Chard at the University of Chicago.
Kyle C. Hale, Ioan Raicu, Kyle Chard
Last updated on Feb 21, 2024
REU Site: Collaborative Research: BigDataX: From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Towards an Integrated, Full-stack System for Memory-centric Computing
NSF Award CCF-2029014; $185,473 (Collaborative total: $250K); January 2021 through December 2021. This project is a collaborative effort with Rujia Wang and Xian-He Sun at IIT and Peng Jiang at the University of Iowa.
Rujia Wang, Kyle C. Hale, Xian-He Sun, Peng Jiang
Last updated on Mar 4, 2023
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Towards an Integrated, Full-stack System for Memory-centric Computing
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Unifying Software and Hardware to Achieve Performant and Scalable Zero-cost Parallelism in the Heterogeneous Future
NSF Award CCF-2028958; $41,627 (Collaborative total: $250K); October 2020 through September 2021. This project is a collaborative effort with Peter Dinda, Simone Campanoni, and Nikos Hardavellas at Northwestern University, and Umut acar at Carnegie Mellon University.
Kyle C. Hale, Peter Dinda, Simone Campanoni, Nikos Hardavellas, Umut Acar
Last updated on Feb 21, 2024
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Unifying Software and Hardware to Achieve Performant and Scalable Zero-cost Parallelism in the Heterogeneous Future
See all