2026 Emery D. Berger: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	40	9335	9065	3964	3800	118	6429

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions in memory management and programming language implementation
2018 - ACM Distinguished Member
2010 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Emery D. Berger is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with particular attention to information systems, software, artificial intelligence, signal processing, and hardware and architecture.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

Software Engineering Research
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Computational Physics and Python Applications
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Real-time simulation and control systems
Academic integrity and plagiarism

Emery D. Berger has published extensively in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Selected recent papers include:

"CoverUp: Effective High Coverage Test Generation for Python," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
"BLeak," 2020, Communications of the ACM
"Mossad: defeating software plagiarism detection," 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
"CoverUp: Effective High Coverage Test Generation for Python," 2025, Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
"Triangulating Python Performance Issues with Scalene," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators include Juan Altmayer Pizzorno, Nicolas van Kempen, Stephen N. Freund, Kyla H. Levin, and Breanna Devore-McDonald.

The recognitions Emery D. Berger has received include:

ACM Fellow (2019) for contributions in memory management and programming language implementation
ACM Distinguished Member (2018)
ACM Senior Member (2010)

Best Publications

Hoard: a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications

Emery D. Berger;Kathryn S. McKinley;Robert D. Blumofe;Paul R. Wilson

713
Citations
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages

Emery D. Berger;Benjamin G. Zorn

605
Citations
Grace: safe multithreaded programming for C/C++

Emery D. Berger;Ting Yang;Tongping Liu;Gene Novark

346
Citations
Dthreads: efficient deterministic multithreading

Tongping Liu;Charlie Curtsinger;Emery D. Berger

340
Citations
Eon: a language and runtime system for perpetual systems

Jacob Sorber;Alexander Kostadinov;Matthew Garber;Matthew Brennan

281
Citations
DieHarder: securing the heap

Gene Novark;Emery D. Berger

264
Citations
Reconsidering custom memory allocation

Emery D. Berger;Benjamin G. Zorn;Kathryn S. McKinley

249
Citations
PROARTIS: Probabilistically Analyzable Real-Time Systems

Francisco J. Cazorla;Eduardo Quiñones;Tullio Vardanega;Liliana Cucu

209
Citations
OOPSLA 2002: Reconsidering custom memory allocation

Emery D. Berger;Benjamin G. Zorn;Kathryn S. McKinley

206
Citations
Composing high-performance memory allocators

Emery D. Berger;Benjamin G. Zorn;Kathryn S. McKinley

203
Citations
Quantifying the performance of garbage collection vs. explicit memory management

Matthew Hertz;Emery D. Berger

180
Citations
AutoMan: a platform for integrating human-based and digital computation

Daniel W. Barowy;Charlie Curtsinger;Emery D. Berger;Andrew McGregor

177
Citations
Exterminator: automatically correcting memory errors with high probability

Gene Novark;Emery D. Berger;Benjamin G. Zorn

148
Citations
CRAMM: virtual memory support for garbage-collected applications

Ting Yang;Emery D. Berger;Scott F. Kaplan;J. Eliot B. Moss

147
Citations
STABILIZER: statistically sound performance evaluation

Charlie Curtsinger;Emery D. Berger

137
Citations
Coz: finding code that counts with causal profiling

Charlie Curtsinger;Emery D. Berger

129
Citations
Garbage collection without paging

Matthew Hertz;Yi Feng;Emery D. Berger

117
Citations
SHERIFF: precise detection and automatic mitigation of false sharing

Tongping Liu;Emery D. Berger

110
Citations
Archipelago: trading address space for reliability and security

Vitaliy B. Lvin;Gene Novark;Emery D. Berger;Benjamin G. Zorn

100
Citations
Redline: first class support for interactivity in commodity operating systems

Ting Yang;Tongping Liu;Emery D. Berger;Scott F. Kaplan

100
Citations
AutoMan: a platform for integrating human-based and digital computation

Daniel W. Barowy;Charlie Curtsinger;Emery D. Berger;Andrew McGregor

12
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin G. Zorn Microsoft (United States)

Kathryn S. McKinley Google (United States)

J. Eliot B. Moss University of Massachusetts Amherst

Francisco J. Cazorla Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Andrew McGregor University of Massachusetts Amherst

David Jensen University of Massachusetts Amherst

James C. Browne The University of Texas at Austin

Sarfraz Khurshid The University of Texas at Austin

Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts Amherst

Lexing Xie Australian National University

External Links

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