

Research Interests
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Cyber Security
Generally speaking, my main research interest falls under the field of cybersecurity. Specific areas of cybersecurity that I am interested in are contained in the following cards
Operating Systems
One of the largest problems with modern day operating systems is their monolithic nature. I am particularly interested in OSes with a microkernel design, although these are esoteric and have not seen wide adoption, microkernels are (in my opinion) the more secure architecture for operating systems.
Internet of Things
In recent years, the large movement of small internet-connected devices have brought up some new interesting security problems. I am particularly interested in secure IoT operating systems, and secure ecosystems of IoT devices.
Secure Hypervisors
Secure hypervisors are more than just a technology to run a VM on, one way of providing isolation to various components of a monolithic system is through virtualization; however, providing strong security mechanisms in a hypervisor is no easy task.
Data Science
Data science is no longer a current research interest of mine, in my undergrad I wrote a honours thesis Extending Heterogeneous Recommenders Beyond First-Party Datasets. I still plan on learning about data science; however, I see it as a means to an end.
Contact
There are a few ways to get in touch with me
- Perform substitutions at the parentheses to get my email:
(my first name)(my last name)(at)scs.carleton.ca
- Github: TheConner
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