Chen Ding’s research seeks to understand the composite and emergent behavior in computer systems especially its dynamic parallelism and active data usage and develop software techniques for automatic or suggestion-based locality optimization, memory management, and program parallelization and optimization. His work received young investigator awards from NSF and DOE. He co-founded the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory System Performance and Correctness (MSPC) and was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research and a visiting professor at MIT. He is also an IBM Center for Advanced Studies Faculty Fellow. He teaches compilation, programming languages, software and system design.