Dr. Childers received a BS degree (Computer Science, 1991) from the College of William and Mary, and a PhD degree (Computer Science, 2000) from the University of Virginia. His research interests are compilers and software development tools, computer architecture, and embedded systems. Current projects include continuous compilation to synergistically apply both static and dynamic code optimizations, debugging for dynamically translated code, power-aware real-time systems, and demand-driven software testing.