Hello! I'm a second year Ph.D. student in the PLSE and SyFI groups at the University of Washington. I'm co-advised by Stephanie Wang and Gilbert Bernstein. I did my undergraduate degree at Brown, where I was advised by Malte Schwarzkopf in the ETOS group. I'm interested in systems and programming languages.

Publications

• Piper: Towards Flexible Pipeline Parallelism for PyTorch
  Megan Frisella, Arvin Oentoro, Xiangyu Gao, Gilbert Bernstein, Stephanie Wang
  PACMI 2025
  [Project page]
• PulseCore: An Impredicative Concurrent Separation Logic for Dependently Typed Programs
  Gabriel Ebner, Guido Martínez, Aseem Rastogi, Thibault Dardinier, Megan Frisella, Tahina Ramananandro, Nikhil Swamy
  PLDI 2025
• Towards ML System Extensibility
  Weixin Deng, Andy Ruan, Megan Frisella, Kai-Hsun Chen, SangBin Cho, Jack Tigar Humphries, Rui Qiao, Stephanie Wang
  HotOS 2025
• Towards Increased Datacenter Efficiency with Soft Memory
  Megan Frisella*, Shirley Loayza Sanchez*, Malte Schwarzkopf
  HotOS 2023
• Quantifying Bias in a Face Verification System
  Megan Frisella, Pooya Khorrami, Jason Matterer, Kendra Kratkiewicz, Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo
  AIBSD 2022

Awards

• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, Winner (2025)
• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Finalist (2024)

Industry Experience

• Microsoft Research RiSE, Research Intern (Summer 2023)
• MITRE, Cyber Security Intern (Summer 2022)
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Student Technical Assistant (Fall 2021)

Teaching Experience

• Logic For Systems @ Brown, Head Teaching Assistant (2023, 2024)