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Angela Brown

University of Toronto · Computer Science
storage systems systems distributed data processing file dynamic instrumentation performance reliability

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Angela Demke Brown is a Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on systems, file and storage systems, distributed data processing, dynamic instrumentation, performance, and reliability. Her homepage provides links to her research projects, students, teaching, and contact information, and mentions a CSC369 course for Fall 2023 with a related email alias.


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Angela Demke Brown is a professor at the University of Toronto, specializing in operating systems, compilers, file systems, memory management, and data processing. Her research focuses on improving system performance through compiler-inserted I/O prefetching, memory reclamation for lockless synchronization, and file system consistency verification. She has developed benchmarks like Jackpine to evaluate spatial database performance and tools such as Recon for runtime file system checks. Her work also explores dynamic binary translation, deterministic concurrency control, and storage maintenance strategies. Brown's contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of system design, with an emphasis on scalability and reliability in modern computing environments.

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