Trustworthy Systems

Gernot's main research interests are in operating systems, especially microkernel-based systems, and their use in embedded/cyber-physical systems, OS security and robustness issues, general cyber-security, energy/power management, real-time systems, virtualization and architectural support for operating systems.

Carroll's research is on formal methods, semantics, security, program correctness and probability.

Craig's research interests include type theory, logic, programming languages, compilers, and formal verification. He presently works on a formal security framework for a provably secure operating system

Kevin works on operating system microkernels and the infrastructure required to support larger systems upon them. His current focus includes secure embedded operating systems suitable for formal verification, and for being the basis of secure systems for embedded devices. He also has interests in componentised operating systems, operating systems in general, security, real-time systems, computer architecture as it pertains to operating systems, and virtualisation.

Rob is a postdoctoral researcher who is broadly interested in discovering how best to design and construct software systems with formally proved functional-correctness and security properties at scale.

Thomas is interested in software verification, programming languages and operating systems. He has contributed extensively to major software verification projects such as the seL4 verified microkernel and the CakeML verified compiler.

Ivan is working on the seL4 Microkit, seL4 Device Driver Framework, virtualisation on seL4, and LionsOS. Most of his time is spent mentoring and helping others in the team towards building a functional and usable LionsOS.

Miki is interested in formal verification techniques and their application to software systems, and broadly proof engineering as a discipline. Miki has contributed to the verification of architecture porting for seL4 and also the verification of the seL4 MCS extensions as the technical lead. Miki is currently involved in a project for device driver verification using the Pancake language (based on cakeML/HOL4).

Peter's research interests include operating system abstractions for, intra alia, storage, scheduling, memory management, and locking. He is also interested in capacity planning, and in systems performance measurement and optimisation. His main expertise is in Unix and Linux kernels, and low level system support built on these. He also maintains the Trustworthy Systems website and internal infrastructure.

Alwin is working on fast paths in seL4 and on a secure multi-server OS on seL4

Ben has deep research interests in formal methods and metamathemtics. Ben is working on Pancake language semantics and program verification.

Bill is involved in low-level work for the sDDF and LionsOS.

Cheng is working on adding persistence to seL4 components. This involves implementing filesystems and block device drivers on top of LionsOS.

Courtney works on secure multi-server operating system design, and on applying model checking to verify inter-component communication in a highly modular seL4-based OS.

Halogen is interested in compilers, programming languages and low level programming. They are working on improving usability for Pancake.

James is working to improve the locking in multicore seL4.

Jingyao is interested in real-time operating systems and hardware. She presently works on device virtualisation for seL4

Krishnan is working on OS development infrastructure, especially support for profiling.

Matt works on sDDF/LionsOS drivers, and various networking, hardware and FPGA projects. Matt's honours thesis is on studying driver dataflow dynamics in the sDDF.

Annie is working on making cva6 cpu work on the Genesys2 board.

Szymon is interested in memory management, secure operating systems.

Terry is doing low-level sDDF and LionsOS work, and is currently looking at clock initialisation on a variety of platforms.

Tiana is working on Pancake

Dao is working on the decompilation-into-logic framework for Pancake.

Junming is interested in memory management and formal methods. She is currently working on verifiying a Pancake ethernet driver using SMT solvers.

Kevin's research is on creating a framework for reasoning about concurrent programs, with the ultimate goal of verifying multicore seL4.

Nils is a visiting PhD student from the Digital Circuits and Systems Group of ETH Zurich. His research interests include application-class processor design and protection against timing channels through HW/SW co-design.

Guangtao is working on optimising the multicore IPC performance for seL4 microkernel

James is a 4th year undergraduate student completing a degree in computer engineering. He is currently working on a project to enable booting virtual machines off disk.

Joong Do (JD) is a thesis student working on designing and developing an ARINC 653-compliant userspace scheduler on seL4 MCS using the Microkit.

He is interested in low-level systems development and software verification, and their intersection.

Kurt is working on verification of sDDF components under weak memory models. He is interested in parallel computing and formal verification.

Manmeet is working on a reference system which would demonstrate high-performance networking on seL4 using LionsOS, suitable for adapting to a variety of network-focussed use cases. Such a practical network router would then have a roadmap that proves its correctness.

Mathieu is interested in formal methods, in particular bringing its cost down.

He is currently working on verifying user level components built on top of seL4 using SMT solvers.

Adam is interested in programming language theory and is working on adding continuations to Pancake.

Anton is working on the specification of an sDDF driver interface and implementation.

Charran is working on the development and verification of Hoare Logic over interaction trees.

Chirag is working on WCET analysis using Otawa using RISC-V processors.

Freya is working on a research internship to establish multikernel support and inter-kernel communication in the Microkit.

Julia is working on adding support for hotplugging of devices to SDDF.

Liam is working on formalising device controllers and verifying their drivers against that interface.

Michael is a 3rd year Advanced Computer Science student interested in Operating Systems development. He is currently working on a project to create a Linux library with the goal of emulating the seL4 Microkit.

Mingyuan is working on writing an IDL compiler for a general-purpose OS written with the seL4 microkernel.

Richard is working on analysing and improving virtualisation performance on seL4 Microkit

Ronald is working on connecting interaction trees and state machines for Pancake device drivers.

Thomas Qu is interested in type theory and software verification.

Tristan is looking into adding new device classes to the seL4 Device Driver Framework.

Uzman is working on adding persistence support to seL4 microkit apps.

Christopher is training as a system administrator to maintain the machines and infrastructure of Trustworthy Systems.

Tessa works part-time as the Administrative Officer, managing the office. She works Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Corey was a senior proof engineer and the lead engineer for verifying multi-core seL4. During his time at TS he has been involved in a wide variety of projects to do with seL4. These include developing the original CapDL translation tools, helping complete the information flow proofs, and contributing to the verification of the seL4 MCS extensions. His research interests include formal methods, functional programming, and program verification. Corey now works at Proofcraft.

Gerwin's research interest is in Formal Methods, more specifically in interactive theorem proving, software verification, semantics of programming languages, and in the emerging field of proof engineering. Generally, he wants software systems to be dependable, and thinks that formal specification and proof can make a significant contribution towards that goal.

Johannes is interested in beauty and truth. He works on interactive theorem proving, program verification and concurrency theory, specifically for the Pancake language

June had joined the Trustworthy Systems research group in 2008 (in NICTA), and led the group from end of 2016 to end of 2020. Her main research interest is in formal verification and certification of software systems, more precisely in formal proof of correctness and security properties of programs using interactive theorem proving, as well as concurrency reasoning, targeting interruptible and multicore systems.

Michael is interested in the use of mathematics and logic to help in the specification and development of computer hardware and software. He is interested both in working on specific applications projects in this area, and in the development of tools to make all such projects easier to work on. Michael now is a Associate Professor at ANU.

Rafal worked as a proof engineer at Trustworthy Systems until April 2021. He led the Proof Engineering team from 2016 until 2021.

Rafal is interested in the formal verification of high assurance, system-level software, both from the perspective of verification in practice, but also proof maintenance and increasing the proof coverage of already verified systems.

Zoltan, a non-standard analyst by training, working on the correctness proof seL4-based OS code.