Michael I. Gordon, PhD

Research Scientist
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Faculty Director
MIT Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI)

PhD MIT 2010 | Masters MIT 2002 | BS Rutgers 2000

The Stata Center, 32-G776
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

mgordon at mit dot edu

Mobile Security

I work alongside Martin Rinard leveraging program analysis techniques for the detection of malware in mobile applications. Our tools summarize a program's security behaviors and prove properties about them. My work is funded by DARPA's APAC program.

Emerging Regions

I am the Faculty Director for MIT AITI, bootstrapping technology entrepreneurship in emerging regions. We partner with universities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to deliver mobile technology incubator courses. We also organize local capacity to nurture startups.

Parallelization

My prior research focused on automatic parallelization of stream programs. I am one of the original designers and developers of the StreamIt programming language, focusing on multicore parallelization technologies.

2013

April 27: Married to my soulmate Stefanie Mnayarji.
March: Mark Kaigwa, my former AITI Kenya student (2007), was named one of Forbes top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 for the African continent.
Winter: AITI organizing 9 programs for this coming Summer: Sri Lanka, India (2 programs), Ghana, South Africa, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, and Colombia.
Winter: AITI awarded $310,000 USD grant from Google.

2012

Nov 1: AITI hires new Program Manager: Julia Reynolds.
Oct. 17: APAC PI meeting presentation in DC.
August 24: Engaged to my soulmate Stefanie Mnayarji.
August 2: APAC PI meeting presentation in Seattle.
Summer: 6 AITI programs: India, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, Philippines, and Colombia.
Spring: Teaching AITI Seminar
Spring: Awarded $200,000 grant from Google for AITI Summer 2012.

2011

June - July: AITI Summer 2011 programs in Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka: 18 MIT student / instructors, 175 university students in emerging regions.
March - May: Instructed AITI training course for summer 2011 participants.
Feb.: Traveled to Sri Lanka (hosted by University of Moratuwa) to lay groundwork for AITI's summer Sri Lanka program.
Feb.: Awarded grants from Google and MIT's International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) for AITI summer programs in Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka.
Jan.: AITI IAP Program: Smart Phone Technologies and Android delivered at Strathmore University in Kenya.

2010

Dec. 2010: Sat on Mobile Innovation in Africa Panel at Orange Lab's Annual Research Day in Paris.
June - July 2010: AITI summer 2010 programs in Rwanda and Ghana: 8 MIT instructors, 60 African students.
June 2010: Traveled between Kenya and Rwanda to oversee AITI's summer programs.
June 2010: Updated CV posted below.
May 21, 2010: Submitted PhD dissertation.
April 16, 2010: Successfully defended PhD thesis.
April, 2010: Awarded Google grant of $25,000 for AITI.
Jan., 2010: Awarded MIT MISTI grant of $30,000 for AITI.

200x

Sept. 2009: Impact for AITI's 2009 program: 2 companies founded (more info: MobiTechno, Equisoft), 1 class running now at JKUAT (Kenya's top engineering university) using our curriculum.
June - July 2009: AITI's summer 2009 program in Kenya. For detailed updates see the archives of the AITI blog.
Spring 2009: Organized AITI summer 2009 program.
Jan. - Feb. 2009: Traveled to North India to deploy a mobile commerce system for rural Indian villagers for United Villages.
Nov. - Dec. 2008: Developed mobile commerce system for United Villages.
Summer 2008: Course development of for nextlab I: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users.
Mar. 2008: Mobile programming course materials I developed for AITI are used in MIT's ICT4Dev class.
Feb. 2008: Medi-SIM awarded "Innovation Award" at SIMagine 2008 Competition, Barcelona, Spain.
Sept., 2007: Awarded AMD/ATI Fellowship for 2007-2008.
Aug. 05, 2007: Returned to US from East Africa.
May 29, 2007: Leaving for East Africa as a participant of MIT AITI.

Bootstrapping Technology Entrepreneurship in Africa & Sri Lanka (The MIT EECS Connector, Spring 2012)
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Developing Nations (MIT News, December 12, 2011)
How Do You Teach Someone To Be An Entrepreneur? (MIT Komaza, Spring 2010)
A New Generation of Mobile Developers: Mobile Camps in Africa (Mobile Active, September 2009)
Simpler Programming for Multicore Computers (Technology Review, April 2007)

Dynamic Expressivity with Static Optimization for Streaming Languages.
Robert Soule, Michael I. Gordon, Saman Amarasinghe, Robert Grimm, and Martin Hirzel.
DEBS 2013, Arlington, TX, June, 2013.
Compiler Techniques for Scalable Performance of Stream Programs on Multicore Architectures.
Michael I. Gordon. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2010.
Defense slides.
Exploiting Coarse-Grained Task, Data, and Pipeline Parallelism in Stream Programs.
Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, and Saman Amarasinghe. ASPLOS 2006, San Jose, CA, October, 2006.
(Presentation Slides as PPT)
A Reconfigurable Architecture for Load-Balanced Rendering.
Jiawen Chen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Matthias Zwicker, Kari Pulli, and Fredo Durand. Graphics Hardware 2005, Los Angeles, CA, August 2005.
Language and Compiler Design for Streaming Applications.
Saman Amarasinghe, Michael I. Gordon, Michal Karczmarek, Jasper Lin, David Maze, Rodric M. Rabbah, and William Thies.
International Journal of Parallel Programming, Volume 33, Issue 2 - 3, Jun 2005, Pages 261-278.
A Stream-Aware Compiler for Communication-Exposed Architectures.
Michael I. Gordon. S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2002.
A Stream Compiler for Communication-Exposed Architectures.
Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Jasper Lin, Ali S. Meli, Andrew A. Lamb, Chris Leger, Jeremy Wong, Henry Hoffmann, David Maze, and Saman Amarasinghe.
ASPLOS 2002, San Jose, CA, October, 2002.
Presentation slides as PPT.
Please also see our detailed results.
StreamIt: A Compiler for Streaming Applications.
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Michael I. Gordon, David Maze, Jeremy Wong, Henry Hoffmann, Matthew Brown, and Saman Amarasinghe.
MIT LCS Technical Memo LCS-TM-622, Cambridge, MA, December, 2001.
A Static Study of Java Exceptions Using JESP.
Barbara G. Ryder, Donald Smith, Ulrich Kremer, Michael Gordon, Nirav Shah.
Proceedings of Ninth Annual International Conference on Compiler Construction, Berlin, Germany, pp 67-81, March 2000.