C

Course Overview An intensive exploration of advanced computer architecture and hardware-software co-design. The coursework focused on processor microarchitecture, memory hierarchy, cache coherence protocols (such as MSI), and hardware-level performance optimization. Assignments were heavily implemented in C and RISC-V Assembly to analyze instruction-level parallelism, pipeline behavior, and data-level parallelism via vector extensions. Core Laboratory Projects 1. Microarchitectural Profiling & Pipeline Hazards Co-designed and executed microbenchmarks in C to reverse-engineer hardware memory hierarchies and expose processor pipeline characteristics. ...

Course Overview An intensive, project-driven exploration of operating systems and system programming. The coursework focused on kernel-level development, concurrency control, memory management, and file systems. A significant portion of the assignments was implemented in Rust to enforce memory safety and data-race freedom in complex concurrent environments. Core Project: Pintos OS Kernel Development Co-developed a monolithic instructional operating system (Pintos) in C, implementing critical subsystems from the ground up. 1. User Programs Engineered a secure, POSIX-compliant system call interface and process execution environment, implementing rigorous user-kernel boundary validation and memory protections to guarantee kernel integrity. ...

Course Overview An intensive, project-driven exploration of computer security principles and applied cryptography. The coursework focused on exploiting memory safety vulnerabilities at the binary level, identifying web application flaws, and engineering cryptographically secure systems from the ground up to resist active adversaries. Security Warning: Do not click this suspicious link Core Project: Secure File Sharing System (project2, Go) Architected a secure, end-to-end encrypted, and distributed file-sharing client in Go, capable of resisting active Datastore adversaries attempting to tamper with or leak data. ...

Course Overview An intensive exploration of the hardware-software interface, system-level programming, and modern computer microarchitecture. The coursework ranged from low-level memory management in C and implementing mathematical algorithms in pure RISC-V assembly, to building a pipelined RISC-V processor core from scratch at the digital logic level. Core Project: Game Logic and Low-Level Memory Management in C Developed a complete Snake game engine from scratch in C, focusing on dynamic memory allocation, pointer arithmetic, and the lifecycle management of complex data structures. ...