
Assistant Professor
Institute for Software Research
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Office: TCS Hall 322
Email: eskang [at] cmu [dot] edu
Phone: (412) 268-3761
I work mainly at the intersection of software engineering and formal methods. My research aims to find better ways to design software systems that are safe, secure, and reliable to use. I am especially interested in automated reasoning, specification languages, design methods, model-driven engineering, system safety, security, and cyber-physical systems (CPS).
Some of the systems that I’ve recently worked on include intelligent vehicles, industrial control systems, medical devices, IoT and mobile platforms, and web applications.
I am always looking for motivated students to join our group! If you are interested in any of these topics, please drop me an e-mail or consider applying to the CMU SE PhD program.
Projects
- Designing for robustness: What does it mean for software to be robust against an evolving or misbehaving environment? How do we design systems to be robust? (FSE ‘20)
- Feature interactions: How do detect and safely manage unanticipated interactions between system components? (ASE ‘20, RV ‘18)
- Resilience in CPS: Can we identify potential safety failures in complex CPS before they occur? How do we recover from such a failure? (RV ‘20, CDC ‘17)
- Secure-by-design methods: What impact do early design decisions have on security? Can we systematically evaluate and synthesize secure designs? (CAV ‘19, FSE ‘16, SecDev ‘16)
Team
- Sridhar Adepu (visitor)
- Prakhar Agrawal (undergrad, w/ Vincent Hellendoorn)
- Simon Chu (PhD)
- Tobias Dürschmid (PhD, w/ David Garlan)
- Ben Gafford (PhD, w/ Rohan Padhye)
- Rômulo Meira Góes (postdoc, w/ Stéphane Lafortune and Stavros Tripakis)
- Sherry Li (visitor)
- Cole Vick (researcher, w/ Stavros Tripakis)
- Yifei Yang (MS)
- CJ Zhang (PhD, w/ David Garlan)
Teaching
- 17-445/645: SE for AI-enabled Systems (F19, F20)
- 17-614 & 624: Formal Methods (F20)
- 17-651: Models of Software Systems (F18, F19)
Bio
Prior to joining CMU, I spent a year working on connected vehicles at Toyota, and was a postdoctoral scholar on the NSF ExCAPE program with Stéphane Lafortune and Stavros Tripakis. I received a PhD in Computer Science at MIT, working with Daniel Jackson. Before MIT, I studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo, where I spent several wonderful terms as an undergraduate researcher in WatForm.