My name is Oren Bell. I’m a sixth-year PhD student studying Computer Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St Louis, advised by Chris Gill. I received my Bachelors of Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, also in Computer Engineering, with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics.

My research interests are in hardware acceleration and memory management middleware. You can find my latest academic work here.

In my personal time, I enjoy backpacking, piano, and electronics design. You can follow my personal projects on my blog or browse my art portfolio here.

You can find my CV, last updated Nov 2024, here

Recent News

Mar 2025 Our paper titled “Reconciling ROS 2 with Classical Real-Time Scheduling of Periodic Tasks” was accepted to RTAS and will be presented this May.

Nov 2024 I attended RTNS in Porto, Portugal to present an abbreviated version of my “Host-Based Allocators for Device Memory” paper for the Junior Workshop, JRWRTC 2024.

Aug 2024 I collaborated with a research team at TU Dortmund on ROS2 scheduler design. See our work here

May 2024 The followup paper to our Hazcat work, titled “Host-Based Allocators for Device Memory” is now available on arXiv. See it here

Oct 2023 Thanks to all who attend our ROSCon workshop and made it a success. You can review the exercises on Github, or review the presentation slides here.

Sept 2023 I attended RTCSA 2023. Proceedings can be found on IEEE Xplore.

Aug 2023 I successfully defended my dissertation proposal: Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Component-Based Applications

July 2023 Our paper titled “Hardware Acceleration with Zero-Copy Memory Management for Heterogeneous Computing” (aka the Hazcat paper) was accepted to RTCSA and I’ll be presenting it this August in Niigata, Japan

June 2023 The ROS2 Real-Time Working Group is organizing a workshop on real-time executors for ROSCon this October in New Orleans.