Derrick Greenspan

Postdoctoral Fellow


Greetings! I am Derrick Greenspan. I am a postdoctoral 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 dissertation was on The Crash Consistency, Performance, and Security of Persistent Memory Objects.

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

My CV can be found here.

Publications

Contact

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

News

  • I will appear at NVMW 2026! - February, 2026
  • My paper, Persistent Memory Objects on the Cheap, is due to appear at the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2025! - May, 2025
  • 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