Trustworthy Systems

Miki Tanaka
Senior Proof Engineer; Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Miki is interested in formal verification techniques and their application to software systems, and broadly proof engineering as a discipline. Miki contributed to several projects for seL4 proofs as the technical lead. Miki currently leads various projects on the Pancake programming language and applying it to device driver verification as well as the device formalisation project.

Contact Details

Email:Miki.Tanaka@unsw.edu.au

More contact information is available at the Contact page.

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Trustworthy Systems Group Papers

2025

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PDF Liam Murphy, Albert Rizaldi, Lesley Rossouw, Chen George, James Treloar, Hammond Pearce, Miki Tanaka and Gernot Heiser
High-fidelity specification of real-world devices
Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS), October, 2025
Abstract PDF Junming Zhao, Alessandro Legnani, Tiana Tsang Ung, H. Truong, Tsun Wang Sau, Miki Tanaka, Johannes Åman Pohjola, Thomas Sewell, Rob Sison, Hira Syeda, Magnus Myreen, Michael Norrish and Gernot Heiser
Verifying device drivers with Pancake
arXiv preprint, January, 2025

2023

Abstract PDF Johannes Åman Pohjola, Hira Taqdees Syeda, Miki Tanaka, Krishnan Winter, Tsun Wang Sau, Benjamin Nott, Tiana Tsang Ung, Craig McLaughlin, Remy Seassau, Magnus O. Myreen, Michael Norrish and Gernot Heiser
Pancake: verified systems programming made sweeter
Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS), Koblenz, DE, October, 2023