Trustworthy Systems

Nicholas Fitzroy-Dale
PhD Student

Research Interests

Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale's research interests include embedded component systems, and domain-specific and high-level optimisation of embedded systems in general.

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Currently I am working for NICTA on a contract basis, on optimisations related to Androidand component-based systems on smartphones.

Projects

Past

Career Summary

I was a PhD student working on optimisation of component-based embedded systems. I have now submitted my dissertation, but am yet to graduate.

Besides my PhD, I worked in some capacity for the comp3231 and comp9242 courses, acted as co-supervisor for thesis student Michael Hills, and maintained several pieces of software: Magpie, an interface generator in the style of IDL4; Mothra, a bug tracker; and the NICTA port of OKL4 to the HTC Dream hardware.

Qualifications

Nicholas holds a Bachelor of Science (computer science) with first class honours from the University of New South Wales.

Publications

Trustworthy Systems Group Papers

2010

Abstract PDF Nicholas Fitzroy-Dale, Ihor Kuz and Gernot Heiser
Architecture optimisation with Currawong
Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), pp. 7–12, New Delhi, India, August, 2010

2009

Abstract PDF Nicholas Fitzroy-Dale and Ihor Kuz
Towards automatic optimisation of componentised systems
Workshop on Isolation and Integration in Embedded Systems, pp. 6, Nuremberg, Germany, March, 2009