Research Focus

My research focuses on real time systems and hardware-software security techniques. I am particularly interested in leveraging COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) technologies to enable secure, safe and fault tolerant real time systems.

Beyond Research

Beyond computer science, I have deep interests in classical music and piano, photography , and philosophical discussions on topics both technical and existential.

Sisyphus
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." — Albert Camus
Ongoing

with Prof. Richard West, PhD student Shriram Raja
Boston University

Hardware-Software Techniques for Kernel Compartmentalization

Developing novel approaches to kernel space isolation using Intel's advanced virtualization features. The project leverages existing Intel technologies like EPT, VMFUNC etc to achieve fine-grained compartmentalization of kernel subsystems with minimal performance overhead. This work aims to provide strong isolation guarantees while maintaining compatibility with existing kernel code.

Systems Security Intel VT-x Linux Kernel Memory Isolation
Ongoing

with Prof. Richard West, PhD student Anton Njavro
Boston University

USB As Real-Time Communication Stack

This project aims to explore USB, as a ubiquitous bus technology, to be used as unified real time bus for both networking and device I/O.

USB Real-Time Communication
2024

RTAS '24

USB Interrupt Differentiated Service for Bandwidth and Delay-Constrained Input/Output

Zhiyuan Ruan, Anton Njavro, Richard West

30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)

2025

RTNS '25

Real-Time Bridging of I/O and Network Buses in Cyber-Physical Systems

Anton Njavro, Zhiyuan Ruan, Richard West

33rd Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS)