Dependable System Laboratory

Today's information society is supported by various levels of advanced technology such as applications, systems, computers and VLSIs. The Dependable System Laboratory is pursuing research on safe and secure systems including distributed systems with hundreds of computers and VLSIs with billions of transistors. "Dependability" is a concept from the user's point of view, when systems can be used reliably and securely.

In order to achieve dependable systems, we need to consider various aspects of these systems from the user's point of view. For example, whether all the systems are completely tested before shipping, whether the systems can function correctly in the presence of faults, whether the systems can predict and avoid system failure caused by transistor aging, whether the system can handle malicious users, and whether the photovoltaic systems can efficiently generate power with partial shade or faulty cells. This laboratory performs research to improve dependability through various approaches.

The Dependable System Lab also fosters skills for logical thinking, presentation, design and analysis of algorithms, CAD tools, machine learning, software programming (C/C++, Java, Python etc.) and hardware programming (Verilog/VHDL) through our research.

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