Christopher D. Gill

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
McKelvey School of Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

CPS-IoT Week Steering Committee Chair

CV/Resume and Google Scholar Profile and
Publications and Spring 2026 Schedule

CPS-IoT Week 2028 Call for Hosting Proposals
Full proposals due July 31st 2026,
Notification of hosting decision August 31st, 2026.

The 47th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2026)
will be held December 8-11, 2026, in Yokohama, Japan.

Professional Interests:

Research:

Elastic and Mixed-Criticality Real-Time, Embedded, and Cyber-Physical Systems
Real-Time Control and Scheduling Co-Design
Real-Time Concurrency Platforms, Operating Systems, Virtualization, and Middleware
Parallel Real-Time Computing atop multicores, GPUs, and FPGAs

Teaching:

Attentional Agentic System Software and Hardware Development
Concurrency and Memory Safe System Software Development
Operating Systems and Advanced Operating Systems
Multi-Paradigm Programming in C++
Concurrent and Distributed System Software
Programming Systems and Languages
Object-Oriented Programming in C++

Professional Organizations:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS)
ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED)
CPS-IoT Week Steering Committee

Other Interests:

When I make the time for it, I greatly enjoy fly fishing, especially during the Missouri State Parks' winter catch-and-release season. I also enjoy fly tying, thanks to the good folks at Feather-Craft Fly Fishing in St. Louis, who taught me. The following may be the most apt description of the current state of fly fishing (and much of the modern world) that I've seen:

"And fly fishermen, now more skilled and knowledgeable than they've ever been, seldom keep any of the fish they go to such pains to catch. [...] We decided we were frontier subsistence journalists, living off the land in one of the few ways that's still possible, that is by gathering food, putting most of it back, and then writing about it for money."

-- John Gierach, "Spring Snow", from Even Brook Trout Get The Blues.

I also enjoy reading hard-copy books, perhaps to a fault. I thought the following was a brilliant riposte to the creeping quantification and monetization (and corresponding erosion of Christopher Alexander's "Quality Without A Name") that unfortunately also is so evident in much of the modern world:

"...thank God there's still something on this planet that belongs completely to the process and the mysterious and the aesthetic."

-- Morgan Harris, quoted by Bianca Bosker, in her excellent book Cork Dork.

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