Research mentoring
Helping students and collaborators think through experiment design, overhead measurement, and technical communication.
Teaching
Teaching and mentoring
Course archive in progress. Approach, mentoring focus, and supported topics.
Approach
Teaching approach
- Start from real systems behavior instead of isolated toy abstractions.
- Use measurement, tracing, and debugging tools to make invisible mechanisms visible.
- Connect research claims to implementation details, tradeoffs, and reproducible workflows.
- Assignments and discussions that build judgment, not just API familiarity.
Contributions
Current
Technical walkthroughs
Explaining Linux internals, eBPF tracing, performance tooling, and engineering workflows through concrete examples.
Writing and review
Improving how technical ideas are structured, defended, and turned into papers, documentation, and software artifacts.
Topics
Subjects I can support well
Overlap of research, industry experience, and technical focus.
Linux systems and kernel behavior
Memory management, tracing, performance bottlenecks, and the mechanics of understanding system behavior under real workloads.
eBPF and observability
Instrumentation design, measurement overhead, and the tradeoffs between visibility, cost, and deployment practicality.
Security engineering
Android, IoT, networking, and system-level security with emphasis on attack surface, evidence, and defensible design choices.
Software design and quality
Architecture, maintainability, technical decision making, and the work required to ship software that lasts.
Materials
Materials
Research page, writing archive, and software case studies.