I am an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. I was previously at Illinois Tech. My research interests span several areas in systems including OS, computer architecture, embedded systems, system security, and virtualization. A current focus is the design of specialized system software stacks for parallel and emerging computing applications. I am affiliated with the HiPCastor group at OSU. You can see my publications below.

I have been fortunate to receive the NSF CAREER award (2023-2028), as well as the IIT College of Computing’s Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research awards.

Students interested in applying for PhD at OSU should see here for more info.

If you’re an undergrad/MS student considering research or going to grad school, you should take a look at this page.

Interests
  • Operating Systems & Virtualization
  • Distributed Systems
  • High-Performance & Parallel Computing
  • Computer Architecture
  • System Security

Recent Papers

IPDPS '26 Shipyard: A Multi-Leader Consensus Protocol with Auto-Balanced Leadership of the Sharded Keyspace
Xincheng Yang, Kyle C. Hale
MEMO '25 CaRDS: Compiler-aided Remote Data Structures
Brian R. Tauro, Ian Dougherty, Kyle C. Hale
ISPDC '25 CoPPar Tree: Fast and Composable Consistency at Global Scale
Xincheng Yang, Kyle C. Hale
ASPLOS '24 TrackFM: Far-out Compiler Support for a Far Memory World
Brian R. Tauro, Brian Suchy, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda, Kyle C. Hale
Middleware '22 Bolt: Fast Inference for Random Forests
Eduardo Romero, Christopher Stewart, Angela Li, Kyle C. Hale, Nathaniel Morris
TPDS 33(6); 2022 Modeling Speedup in Multi-OS Environments
Brian Tauro, Conghao Liu, Kyle C. Hale
EuroSys '22 Isolating Functions at the Hardware Limit with Virtines
Giles Muller Best Artifact Award Undergraduate Research
Nicholas C. Wanninger, Joshua J. Bowden, Kirtankumar Shetty, Ayush Garg, Kyle C. Hale
MASCOTS '21 Extremely Fine-grained Parallelism via Scalable Concurrent Queues on Modern Many-core Architectures
Poornima Nookala, Peter Dinda, Kyle C. Hale, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu
ROSS '21 The Case for an Interwoven Parallel Hardware/Software Stack
Kyle C. Hale, Simone Campanoni, Nikos Hardavellas, Peter A. Dinda
APSys '21 Coalescent Computing
Kyle C. Hale
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News

MemPower paper accepted to IEEE Cluster '26!
Nanda’s paper describing MemPower, a new modeling and analysis framework for software-directed DVFS was accepted to IEEE Cluster 2026! Congrats Nanda!
Nanda Velugoti, Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Jul 22, 2026
Shipyard paper accepted to IPDPS '26!
Xincheng’s paper on load-balanced consensus for sharded deployments has been accepted to IPDPS ‘26. Congrats Xin!
Xincheng Yang, Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Feb 23, 2026
Jamie receives ACM student research award at SC '23!
Jamie won third place in the ACM student research competition at the Supercomputing ‘23 conference. His work focuses on Python Unikernels for HPC. Congrats Jamie!
Jamison Kerney, Kyle C. Hale, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Kyle Chard
Last updated on Nov 20, 2023
Jamie receives ACM student research award at SC '23!
TrackFM paper accepted to ASPLOS '24!
Brian’s paper on using compilers to automatically transform applications to use disaggregated memory has been accepted to ASPLOS ‘24. Congratulations Brian on this well-deserved achievement and thanks to our wonderful collaborators at Northwestern University!
Brian Tauro, Brian Suchy, Simone Campanoni, Peter Dinda, Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 30, 2023
Wang, Sun, Hale, and Jiang at UIowa win NSF award!
A team of three IIT faculty (Rujia Wang, Kyle Hale, and Xian-He Sun) and a collaborator at the University of Iowa, Peng Jiang won a $1M award from NSF to investigate novel architectures for next-generation systems integrating near-data processing.
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
Wang, Sun, Hale, and Jiang at UIowa win NSF award!
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Teaching

CS/ECE 4/599: Modern Memory Systems
Current Iteration: Winter ‘26 (Canvas)
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Feb 23, 2026
CS/ECE 4/599: Modern Memory Systems
CS/ECE 472: Computer Architecture
Current Iteration: Fall ‘24 (Canvas)
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Oct 2, 2024
CS/ECE 472: Computer Architecture
CSP 544: System and Network Security
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Fall ‘23 Spring ‘22 Spring ‘20
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Oct 2, 2024
CSP 544: System and Network Security
CS 595: Advanced Topics in Serverless and Edge Computing
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Spring ‘23 Fall ‘21
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
CS 595: Advanced Topics in Serverless and Edge Computing
CS 450: Operating Systems
Current Iteration: Past Iterations: Fall ‘22 Fall ‘20 Spring ‘19
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Mar 4, 2023
CS 450: Operating Systems
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Funding

Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Towards A Unified Memory-centric Computing System with Cross-layer Support
NSF Award CNS-2310422; $886,226 ($1M collaborative total); October 2023 through September 2026. This project is a collaborative effort with Rujia Wang and Xian-He Sun at IIT and Peng Jiang at the University of Iowa.
Rujia Wang, Xian-He Sun, Kyle C. Hale, Peng Jiang
Last updated on Aug 9, 2023
Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Towards A Unified Memory-centric Computing System with Cross-layer Support
CAREER: Colony: A Framework for Bespoke Virtual Execution Contexts
CNS Award CNS-2239757; $632,214; May 2023 through April 2028. Vulnerabilities present in software running on shared computing infrastructure (e.g., cloud datacenters) can result in significant economic losses, compromised user data, and weakened national security when such infrastructure does not properly separate programs from one another in secure, isolated compartments.
Kyle C. Hale
Last updated on Apr 28, 2023
CAREER: Colony: A Framework for Bespoke Virtual Execution Contexts
REU Site: Collaborative Research: BigDataX: From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales
NSF Award OAC-2150500; $362,878 (Collaborative Total: $400K); July 2022 through June 2025. This project is in collaboration with Ioan Raicu at IIT as well as Kyle Chard at the University of Chicago.
Kyle C. Hale, Ioan Raicu, Kyle Chard
Last updated on Feb 21, 2024
REU Site: Collaborative Research: BigDataX: From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Towards an Integrated, Full-stack System for Memory-centric Computing
NSF Award CCF-2029014; $185,473 (Collaborative total: $250K); January 2021 through December 2021. This project is a collaborative effort with Rujia Wang and Xian-He Sun at IIT and Peng Jiang at the University of Iowa.
Rujia Wang, Kyle C. Hale, Xian-He Sun, Peng Jiang
Last updated on Mar 4, 2023
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Towards an Integrated, Full-stack System for Memory-centric Computing
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Unifying Software and Hardware to Achieve Performant and Scalable Zero-cost Parallelism in the Heterogeneous Future
NSF Award CCF-2028958; $41,627 (Collaborative total: $250K); October 2020 through September 2021. This project is a collaborative effort with Peter Dinda, Simone Campanoni, and Nikos Hardavellas at Northwestern University, and Umut acar at Carnegie Mellon University.
Kyle C. Hale, Peter Dinda, Simone Campanoni, Nikos Hardavellas, Umut Acar
Last updated on Feb 21, 2024
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Unifying Software and Hardware to Achieve Performant and Scalable Zero-cost Parallelism in the Heterogeneous Future
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