Prof. Nir Shavit

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-G622

shanir@csail.mit.edu

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Multiprocessors
Parallel Computing
Multicore Programming
Concurrent Data Structures
Shared Memory Computability and Complexity
Techniques for Designing, Implementing, and Reasoning About Multiprocessors (In Particular the Design of Concurrent Data Structures for Multi-Core Machines) Introduction and First Implementation of Software Transactional Memory

Research Summary

Professor Shavit's main interests are techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, in particular concurrent data structures for multicore machines, and the mathematical foundations of the shared memory computation model that governs their behavior.

Projects

January 30, 2017

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

New Tools for Extracting Neuronal Phenotypes from a Volumetric Set of Cerebral Cortex Images

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 25, 2017

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

High-Thoughput Connectomics

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 25, 2017

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Run-Time Support for Scalable Concurrent Programming

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

October 26, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Exiguous Optogenetic Circuits

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

October 26, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Computational Connectomics Group (CCG): Mapping the Structure of Thought

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

October 26, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

High Throughput Connectomics Exiguous Optogenetic Circuits

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 30, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Multicore Algorithmics Group (MAG)

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 30, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

StackTrack: New Concurrent Memory Reclamation

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 30, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Relaxed Concurrent Data-Structures

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 30, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Foundations of Concurrency

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

January 30, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Hybrid Transactional Memory

Principal Investigator Nir Shavit

Video

Redefining AI Infrastructure from the City Edge to the Data Center Core: Nir Shavit

September 30, 2025Conference Video Duration: 21:26

Intelligence Everywhere: Redefining AI Infrastructure from the City Edge to the Data Center Core

Nir Shavit
Professor, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Co-Founder, Neural Magic

Prof. Nir Shavit

Primary DLC

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Research Summary

Recent Work

New Tools for Extracting Neuronal Phenotypes from a Volumetric Set of Cerebral Cortex Images

High-Thoughput Connectomics

Run-Time Support for Scalable Concurrent Programming

Exiguous Optogenetic Circuits

Computational Connectomics Group (CCG): Mapping the Structure of Thought

High Throughput Connectomics Exiguous Optogenetic Circuits

Multicore Algorithmics Group (MAG)

StackTrack: New Concurrent Memory Reclamation

Relaxed Concurrent Data-Structures

Foundations of Concurrency

Hybrid Transactional Memory

Redefining AI Infrastructure from the City Edge to the Data Center Core: Nir Shavit

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