Dr. Anam Farrukh

Hello there! Welcome to my homepage.
I'm a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Computer Science at BU where I worked as a real-time core system's researcher in the Real-Time Systems group led by my adviser, Doctor Who! ... or as most people know him as, Professor Richard West. Together we used to roll our sleeves up everyday and get down to the nitty gritty of designing and building mixed-criticality centralized vehicle management systems in the avionics and automotive domains that are verifiably safe, timing predictable and performance efficient. My ultimate goal in life is to build my very own TARDIS....that safely travels with real-time guarantees of-course! But until then, all my research efforts have gone towards designing next-generation software-defined vehicle architectures, which gaurantee execution time predictability, incorporate temporal and spatial isolation for smart resource management, employ efficient fault tolerance and recovery mechanisms against timing and functional failures and last but not the least, have enhanced environmental awareness. I along with my peers @ BU and the excellent team of engineers at Drako Motors Inc. worked towards a better, cleaner and greener world with our co-designed vehicle system capable of hosting extensible, flexible and adaptable architectural features.
My research interests broadly include:

• real-time operating systems,
• hardware-software codesign,
• mixed criticality systems especially those related to avionics (IMA: Integrated Modular Avionics) and the automotive domain,
• on-chip distributed systems based on the separation-kernel concept.

If you are interested to know more, feel free to drop me an email @ afarrukh [at] bu [dot] edu and I'd be more than happy to follow up.

Curriculum Vitae

Conference Papers

• Anam Farrukh and Richard West, "JuMP2start: Time-Aware Stop-Start Technology for a Software-Defined Vehicle System", in Proceedings of the 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024), Lille, France, LIPIcs, Volume 298, July 9-12, 2024. [pdf] [presentation]
  • Also available here.
• Anam Farrukh and Richard West, "FlyOS: Rethinking Integrated Modular Avionics for Autonomous Multicopters", in the Special Edition of Real-Time Systems Journal (RTSJ), Springer, 2023. [pdf]
• Soham Sinha, Anam Farrukh and Richard West, "ModelMap: A Model-based Multi-domain Application Framework for Centralized Automotive Systems", in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, California, USA, October 30-November 3, 2022. [pdf]
• Anam Farrukh and Richard West, "FlyOS: Integrated Modular Avionics for Autonomous Multicopters", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Milan, Italy, May 4-6, 2022. (Outstanding Paper, Best Student Paper Award) [pdf] [presentation]
  • Invited Article @ SIGBED Blog, July 25, 2022.
  
  
  

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• Anam Farrukh and Richard West, "smARTflight: An Environmentally-Aware Adaptive Real-Time Flight Management System", in Proceedings of the 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Modena, Italy, 7-10 July, 2020. (Outstanding Paper, Best Paper Award) [pdf] [presentation]
  
  

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• Michel Kinsy, Shreeya Khadka, Mihailo Isakov and Anam Farrukh: “Hermes: Secure Heterogeneous Multicore Architecture Design”, in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), May 2017. [pdf]

Technical Reports

• Anam Farrukh, "Cleanfight Flight Controller: A nose dive into the Frequency Domain", Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, 2019 [pdf]

Courses

• CS112: Introduction to Computer Science 2 - Summer-I & II 2020
• CS350: Fundamentals of Computer Systems - Fall 2019, Spring 2020
• CS591: Topics in Computer Science - Summer-II 2019
• CS111: Introduction to Computer Science 1 - Summer-I 2019
• CS552: Operating Systems - Spring 2018,2019
• EC440: Introduction to Operating Systems - Fall 2017,2018
• CS410: Advanced Software Systems - Fall 2018
• EC327: Software Engineering - Summer 2018,2017