Katherine Mohr

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Hello! I'm Katherine. I'm a first year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, where I'm coadvised by Fred Kjolstad and Keith Winstein.

News: I'll be at CppCon September 13-18! Come say hi!

I'm broadly interested in compilers, programming languages, networking, and computer architecture.

I just finished up my first-year rotations, where I

explored new methods of serverless compute with Keith,
mapped data to heterogeneous memories (and separately, struggled to understand the internals of cudf) with Fred, and
built an early prototype of a server that uses both DRAM and "Long-term RAM" with Phil.

Before coming to Stanford, I majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (with a strong emphasis on the computer science side of that), where I was advised by some incredible people, including Prof Saman Amarasinghe, Prof Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Ajay Brahmakshatriya, and AJ Root, as well as many others in a less official capacity. I also spent some time before grad school working at Five Rings Capital.

All the cool kids have blogs, so I'm trying this thing out. If this blog looks familiar, it's because it is blatantly stolen from Micah Lerner's excellent blog. You should probably go check that out instead.

Publications

The Kernel's Write: Application Read-Only Memory PDF Poster
Hui Sub Shim, Katherine Mohr, and Phil Levis

Workshop on Disruptive Memory Systems (DIMES) , September 2026
Continuation-Centric Computing with Arca PDF
Akshay Srivatsan, Yuhan Deng, Katherine Mohr, Emma Sudo, Sebastian Ingino, Francis Chua, and Keith Winstein

Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) , July 2026
On-Stack Replacement Across User-Kernel Boundaries PDF
Katherine Mohr

M.Eng. Thesis 2024

Blog

Fragments

Meta-Writing - May 23, 2026
C++ Arrow Chaining - April 14, 2026
How to resize a UTM VM - April 03, 2026

Shout out Jess Ding for being my accountability buddy to keep this page somewhat updated.