I’m a PhD candidate at EPFL, Switzerland.
My research focuses on building secure foundations for our compute infrastructure.
I am part of the Data Center System Laboratory, working under the supervision of Prof. Edouard Bugnion.
You can reach out by email using the address charly.castes@epfl.ch.
Research
You can find more about my research projects here.
Lightweight Hypervisor Verification: Putting the Hardware Burger on a Diet
HotOS'25
Charly Castes, François Costa, Nate Foster, Thomas Bourgeat, Edouard Bugnion
Kicking the Firmware Out of the TCB with the Miralis Virtual Firmware Monitor
KISV'24
Charly Castes, Neelu S. Kalani, Sofia Saltovskaia, Noé Terrier, Abel Vexina Wilkinson, Edouard Bugnion
Sharing is leaking: blocking transient execution attacks with core-gapped confidential VMs
ASPLOS'24 (presented at ASPLOS'25)
Charly Castes, Andrew Baumann
Dynamic Linkers Are the Narrow Waist of Operating Systems