Dr. Childers received a BS degree (Computer Science, 1991) from the College of William and Mary, and a PhD degree (Computer Science, 2000) from the University of Virginia.
He developed a novel system for the automatic design of application-specific processors. He also worked in industry on projects for custom VLIW/systolic architectures and low-power embedded processors.
Dr. Childers' research interests include computer architecture, compilers and software development tools, and embedded systems.
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- Leadership Pittsburgh XXXIX, nominated by University of Pittsburgh. 2022–2023
- ACC Academic Leaders Network, Office of the Provost. 2018–2019
- CSD Teaching Award, CS 447 Computer Organization. 2014–2015
- CSD Teaching Award, CS 447 Computer Organization. 2011–2012
- CSD Teaching Award, CS 447 Computer Organization. 2009–2010
- CSD Teaching Award, CS 1541 Introduction to Computer Architecture. 2007–2008
- CSD Teaching Award, CS 3410 Computer Architecture Seminar. 2001–2002
- CSD Teaching Award, CS 3410 Computer Architecture Seminar. 2000–2001
- IBM Faculty Partnership Award, IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies. 2001–2002
- IBM Faculty Partnership Award, IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies. 2000–2001
- Honors, College of William and Mary, Source Code Compaction. 1990–1991
R. Moore and B. Childers, "Program Affinity Performance Models for Performance and Utilization," Design Automation and Test in Europe, pp. 105-108, Dresden, Germany (interactive), March 2014.
S. Bock, B. Childers, R. Melhem and D. Mossé, "Understanding the Limiting Factors of Page Migration in Hybrid Main Memory," ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, May 2015.
X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, B. Childers and J. Yang, "Exploiting DRAM Restore Time Variations in Deep Sub-micron Scaling," Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp. 477-482, Grenoble, France, March 2015.
M. Rahman and B. R. Childers, "Asteroid: Scalable Online Memory Diagnostics," ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Ischia, Italy, May 2015.
B. Childers, A. Jones and D. Mossé, "A Roadmap and Plan of Action for Community-Supported Empirical Evaluation in Computer Architecture," Operating Systems Review: Special Issue on Repeatability and Sharing of Experimental Artifacts, pp. 108-117, 2015.
Computer architecture
Compilers and software development tools
Embedded systems
