J. Eliot B. Moss

Professor, Computer Science
Object Systems Laboratory
Object-oriented languages, performance measurement and optimization, garbage collection, transactional memory.

Background: Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981), M.S.E.E., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978), B.S.E.E., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975). Professor Moss has been on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1985, and was promoted to full Professor of Computer Science in 2007. He is the Director of the Object Systems Laboratory. Previously he spent four years as a senior analyst/programmer at the U.S. Army War College.

Research: Professor Moss's current research interests focus on persistent storage systems for object oriented languages, garbage collection algorithms, and the Java Virtual Machine.

Activities and awards: Professor Moss is an ACM Fellow (named in 2007). He received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987, a University of Massachusetts Amherst Lilly Teaching Fellowship in 1991, and a UMass TEACHnology Fellowship in 2005.

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