STEP group @ KTH

Jonas Haglund defence

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to Jonas Haglund who has successfully defended his dissertation Formal Verification of Peripheral Memory Isolation!

Andreas Lidner defence

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to Andreas Lindner who has successfully defended his dissertation Proving Safety and Security of Binary Programs!

Ning's 80% seminar

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Ning did his 80% seminar titled “Building a Trustworthy Stack: Formal Verification of Low-Level Hardware and Software.” Read more about Ning’s work on the Machine-Independent Language and the formally verified pipelined processor.

Anoud's 50% seminar

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Anoud did her 50% seminar titled “HOL4P4: A Formal Semantics for P4 Programs.” Read more about her work on P4 formalization.

Didrik's 80% seminar

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Didrik did his 80% seminar titled “Formal Verification of Binary Code and Programmable Networks.” Read more about his work verification of binary code and formalization of P4.

The 5th European P4 Workshop

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Anoud Alshnakat and Didrik Lundberg attended EuroP4’22 in Rome, Italy. They presented their work on HOLP4: semantics for a verified data plane.

Henrik's 30% seminar

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Henrik Karlsson did his 30% seminar on the design and implementation of a dynamic separation kernel.

CDIS Fall Retreat 2022

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Henrik Karlsson presented his work on the design and implementation of a dynamic separation kernel at the CDIS Fall Retreat.

Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2022

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Jonas Haglund, Karl Palmskog, and Ning Dong attended FMCAD 22. The following papers from KTH STEP were published at FMCAD 22, Formally Verified Isolation of DMA, and Foundations and Tools in HOL4 for Analysis of Microarchitectural Out-of-Order Execution.

Most Influencial Paper of ICFP'12

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to Pablo Buiras and his co-authors who received the Most Influencial Paper of ICFP’12 award for the paper Addressing Covert Termination and Timing Channels in Concurrenct Information Flow Systems. The work was done while Pablo was at Chalmers.

Castor Software Days

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Anoud Alshnakat and Didrik Lundberg presented their poster on the formalization of the P4 programming language at the Castor Software Days.

Machine-Independent Language (MIL) Release

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The formalization of the Machine-Independent Language (MIL), that captures microarchitectural features, have been released.

FMCAD papers accepted!

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The papers “Formally Verified Isolation of DMA,” by Jonas Haglund and Roberto Guanciale, and the paper “Foundations and Tools in HOL4 for Analysis of Microarchitectural Out-of-Order Execution,” by Karl Palmskog, Xiaomo Yao, Ning Dong, Roberto Guanciale, and Mads Dam, were accepted to FMCAD 22!

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Ning Dong did his 50% seminar on verified pipelined processors and microarchitectural modelling and verification.

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

STEP Retreat in Sigtuna.

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

At SWITS, Anoud Alshnakat presented a formalization of P4, and Henrik Karlsson presented a poster on the design of a separation kernel.

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

At the CDIS Spring Conference, Roberto Guanciale gave a talk, and Henrik Karlsson presented a poster about the separation kernel project.

Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Anoud Alshnakat did her 50% seminar on the formalization of P4.

Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

HOL4 formalization of MIL publicly released.

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New website.

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Peterson joined the team for his Master Thesis, about Control-Flow Graph Reconstruction.

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

KTH hosted the EuroS&P 2019 conference last week.

Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Baptiste Coste joined the team for a three-months internship, to help on implementation of our Bounded Execution Time project.

Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Xiaomo (Mort) Yao joined the team for a PhD position on program synthesis.

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Lacroix joined the team for his Master Thesis, about automation of formal verification using HolBA. Thomas left on 2019-06-28.

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Pablo Buiras joined the team for his postdoc in the Trustfull project.