Research Scientist
Google

Kathryn S. McKinley was previously a Principal Research at Microsoft and an Endowed Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her BA, MS, and PhD from Rice University. Her research interests span programming language design and implementation, runtimes, architecture, performance, and energy efficiency for cloud and mobile. She and her collaborators have produced widely used tools: DaCapo Java Benchmarks (31,800+ downloads), TRIPS Compiler, Hoard memory manager, MMTk memory management toolkit, and Immix garbage collector. She graduated 22 PhD students. Dr. McKinley was honored to testify to the House Science Committee (Feb. 14, 2013). She served as CRA-W co-chair. She is an IEEE and ACM Fellow. She and her husband have been married over 30 years and have three sons.