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Digital Unavailability through August ’23: I’m on sabbatical from June ’22 through Aug ’23, and will be checking my GWU email at most once a week. Unfortunately, my default answer for service requests will be negative. If you have a pressing need, please contact me using alternate means (phone, slack, discord). Keep an eye out for the research coming out of this year!
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at George Washington University. I received my PhD. from Boston University under the direction of Professor Richard West. I lead the real-time systems, and Operating Systems groups at GWU.
Much of our research centers around the Composite component-based operating system. Fine grained system policies, mechanisms, and abstractions are defined as independent components, which are composed together to create a specialized and functional system. In doing so, a focus is on taking advantage of the increased system flexibility to bring predictability to cloud-scale systems, and rich functionality to embedded systems. Topics of interest include:
- the design and implementation of operating systems
- real-time and embedded systems
- operating system dependability
- embedded system security
- specialized and component-based systems
- operating systems for massive parallelism
- formal verification
We’ve also researched and developed one of the fastest software sandboxing systems for WebAssembly outside of the browser, aWsm. We’ve investigated runtimes for the smallest of microcontrollers up to a serverless runtime for the edge. Unifying Wasm and Composite runtimes will enable universal binaries able to run efficiently with tight security and reliability properties.
Please see our publications for more detail.
Composite Other Links
- The amazing current researchers and alumni of the lab.
- A list of systems heros, undergraduates who have demonstrated an exceptional passion and capability in the OS class.
- A long list of random facts about me.