Active graduate students/researchers

•   Dr. Aviad Zuck, associate researcher
•   Dr. Idan Yaniv, associate researcher
•   Dr. Igor Smolyar, associate researcher

•   Avidan Borisov, PhD, direct track

•   Daniel Bransky, MSc
• Itamar Gefen, MSc

Alumni

•   Mohammad Agbarya, PhD (Apr 2025) “Estimating application runtimes using TLB performance metrics”. MSc (Sep 2019) “What can be learned from mixing memory pages of different sizes”.
•   Niv Kaminer, MSc (Feb 2025) “Static huge-page allocation guided by execution profiles”. Co-supervised with Nadav Amit.
•   Igor Smolyar, PhD (Oct 2024) “Improving the performance of direct memory accesses, interrupts, and paravirtualization of high-performance I/O”. MSc (Oct 2014) “Securing self-virtualizing Ethernet devices”.
  Honors/awards: ASPLOS'20 best paper.
•   Boris Pismenny, PhD (Jan 2024) “Alleviating Memory and CPU Bottlenecks in Hundred Gigabit Networking”. Co-supervised with Adam Morrison.
  Honors/awards: (i) 2024 first place in Feder Family Yearly Award for Best Student Work in Communications Technology, by the Advanced Communication Center (ACC). (ii) 2023 Blavatnik Award for Outstanding Israeli Doctoral Candidates in computer Science. (iii) 2023 Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP). (iv) ASPLOS'21 best paper. (v) ASPLOS'20 best paper. (vi) SYSTOR'19 best paper.
•   Idan Yaniv, PhD, direct track (Jul 2023) “Improving the Performance and Evaluation Methodology of Virtual Memory Systems”.
  Honors/awards: SYSTOR'14 Best Poster.
•   Ella Sheory, MSc (Apr 2023) “Exploring Advanced Cache Algorithms for the TLB”.
  Honors/awards: Council for Higher Education ("VATAT") Scholarship for Master's Degrees for Outstanding Women in Hi-Tech.
• Idan Raz, MSc (Mar 2022) “Model-Based Simulation for SMT Cores”.
• Maxim Barsky, MSc (Mar 2022) “PartTLB: dynamic TLB partitioning for SMT processors”.
•   Alex Markuze, PhD, direct track (Oct 2021) “Characterizing, exploiting, detecting and preventing DMA attacks in the presence of an IOMMU”. Co-supervised with Adam Morrison.
  Honors/awards: ASPLOS'20 best paper.
•   Aviv Ben-David, MSc (Jul 2021) “Investigating the difference between emulated and paravirtual network I/O: the strange, untold story”.
•   Aviad Zuck, postdoc (Oct 2014 – Sep 2020).
•   Gil Kupfer, MSc (May 2018) “IOMMU-Resistant DMA Attacks”.
•   Arthur Kiyanovski, MSc (Aug 2017) “The real difference between emulation and paravirtualization of high-throughput I/O devices”.
•   Eyal Moscovici, MSc (Mar 2017) “I/O core manager for virtual environments”.
  Honors/awards: (i) SYSTOR'16 Best Poster. (ii) graduated magna cum laude.
•   Nadav Amit, postdoc (Sep 2014 – Dec 2015). PhD, direct track (Sep 2014) “Alleviating virtualization bottlenecks”. Co-supervised with Assaf Schuster.
  Honors/awards: (i) 2024 ASPLOS Influential Paper Award. (ii) 2015 Google Patch $10,000 Reward. (iii) 2015 SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. (iv) 2014 SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award. (v) 2012 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award.
•   Omer Peleg, MSc (Aug 2015) “Utilizing the IOMMU scalably”.
  Honors/awards: graduated summa cum laude.
•   Ilya Lesokhin, MSc (Aug 2015) “I/O page faults”.
  Honors/awards: graduated magna cum laude.
•   Muli Ben-Yehuda, MSc (Jul 2015) “The nom profit-maximizing operating system”.
  Honors/awards: (i) 2024 ASPLOS Influential Paper Award. (ii) 2012 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award. (iii) Intel prize. (iv) graduated summa cum laude.
•   Eitan Rosenfeld, MSc (Mar 2015) “RAIDP: replication with intra-disk parity”. Co-supervised with Michael Factor.
•   Moshe Malka, MSc (Feb 2015) “Rethinking the I/O memory management unit”.
•   Yossi Kuperman, MSc (Feb 2015) “Paravirtual remote I/O”.
  Honors/awards: SYSTOR'13 Best Poster.