About
PhD Student at Washington University in St Louis.
My research interests are in memory management and scheduling, with a focus on robotic and heterogeneous compute systems.
Technical skills include: ROS2, ROS2 stack development, Fusion360, MPLAB, hardware design, PCB design, CUDA, Vitis
Unrelated talents include: piano, carpentry
Publications/Presentations
Harun Teper, Oren Bell, Mario Günzel, Chris Gill, and Jian-Jia Chen. “Reconciling ROS 2 with Classical Real-Time Scheduling of Periodic Tasks.” 2025 IEEE 31st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). IEEE, 2025.
Oren Bell, Ashwin Kumar, Chris Gill. “Host-Based Allocators for Device Memory.” 17th Junior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing, co-located with RTNS 2024 (JRWRTC 2024). JRWRTC, 2024.
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Marion Sudvarg, Oren Bell, Tyler Martin, Benjamin Standaert, Tao Zhang, Sun-Beom Kwon, Chris Gill, and Arun Prakash. “Towards a concurrency platform for scalable multi-axial real-time hybrid simulation.” Frontiers in Built Environment 10: 1424721.
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Oren Bell, Chris Gill, Xuan Zhang. “Hardware Acceleration with Zero-Copy Memory Management for Heterogeneous Computing” The 29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2023).
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Shuhao Wu, Jan Staschulat, Stephanie Eng, Oren Bell. “Real-time programming with ROS 2” Real-time Programming with ROS2, Workshop as part of ROSCon 2023.
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Education
Washington University in St Louis – 2019 to present
Computer Engineering PhD, ongoing
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Advisor – Chris Gill
Autonomous Vehicle Testing
- Lead electronics developer for scale model city to test self-driving cars
- Article about project
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville – 2013 to 2017
Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering
Minors in Computer Science and Mathematics
Research Assistantship
- Studied betweenness centrality as a clustering heuristic using the road network of California as a dataset
- Unpublished white paper written on findings
Senior Design Project
- Developed entrant to 2017 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition
- Based on the Master’s Thesis of Clayton Faber
- Placed 3rd
Awards
- 3rd Place 2017 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition
- 2nd Place 2016 St Louis Blackbox competition
- Raghupathy and Sailirani Bollini Scholarship – 2-time recipient
- Cougar Pride Scholarship – 4-year merit-based scholarship
Work
TU Dortmund – Aug to Nov 2024
- Visiting researcher for DAES group in Dortmund, Germany
- Collaboration with on a real-time schedulers for robotic systems
MiDOC – 2022 to 2024
- CTO
- Hardware design for medical wearables
Nidec – 2018 to 2019
- Developed mesh network to be put in HVAC units to create smart buildings
- Advise on design decisions for mobile app
- Hardware design
Boeing – 2017 to 2018
- Develop diagnostic software
- Maintain server infrastructure
SIUE – 2017
- Provided supplemental instruction on embedded electronics
- Provided supplemental instruction on digital design