ZeroDown
A zero-downtime IoT policy enforcement framework for MCU-class devices with OTA policy updates, runtime toggling, and embedded uBPF execution.
Research network
Collaboration
A collaboration model centered on systems research, software artifacts, and measurable outcomes.
This page outlines research focus, faculty advising, and collaboration opportunities across security, observability, and performance engineering.
Lead researcher
Uddhav P. Gautam
PhD Candidate in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, working on Linux kernel instrumentation, eBPF observability, Android and IoT security, and rigorous software engineering.
BlueSentry
An application-layer BLE security framework combining FSM enforcement and runtime eBPF policies for embedded-device threat detection.
eBPF tracing overhead analysis
Kernel observability work on reducing tracing overhead and improving measurement quality under real workloads.
Kernel protobuf firewall prototypes
Application-layer firewall and protobuf parsing work in the Linux kernel using custom kfunc support and TC-based enforcement.
Model
Structure
- Work organized around papers, experiments, and engineering artifacts.
- Collaborations around shared systems problems: observability, security, networking, and performance.
- Publications and writing archive document the work.
Collaboration
Opportunities
Research collaborators
Kernel measurement, eBPF tooling, system performance, platform security.
Students and mentees
Low-level systems, close paper reading, careful benchmarking, useful artifacts.
Industry and applied partners
Careful measurement, practical constraints, solid software engineering.
Next step
Next steps
Start with publications, research themes, and technical writing.