Pawel Dzialo

About me

My research area is cybersecurity, where i focus on memory-safe firmware.

Specifically, i work with the Rust programming language, where i (together with colleagues) develop tooling and platforms which can strengthen the guarantees of the language, and improve it's performance.

I am also interested in hardware design, mainly working under the RISC-V architecture. Here, i work with Hippomenes, which is our own, in-house, RISC-V based processor, intended as a research platform. Using Hippomenes, we are investigating how hardware can be better suited to the software it's running, and how hardware architecture extensions can further improve the security, safety, reliability and performance of embedded systems.

Hippomenes was originally developed using our in-house simulation environment, SyncRim. SyncRim is also used for part of the practical examination in the course Microcomputer engineering (D0013E).

Within education, i'm active in the courses Digital Design (D0011E) and Microcomputer Engineering (D0013E), where i help out with the practical examination, and course development.

Sometimes, you may also find me in the discussion forums for other courses related to embedded systems here at LTU.