Hi there! I'm Charly.

I’m a PhD candidate at EPFL, Switzerland. My research focuses on building systems we can trust. I am part of the Data Center System Laboratory, working under the supervisor of Prof. Edouard Bugnion. You can learn more about my research here.

Research

You can find more about my research projects here.

• Dynamic Linkers Are the Narrow Waist of Operating Systems

  PLOS'23

  Charly Castes, Adrien Ghosn
• Creating Trust by Abolishing Hierarchies

  HotOS'23

  Charly Castes, Adrien Ghosn, Neelu S. Kalani, Yuchen Qian, Marios Kogias, Mathias Payer, Edouard Bugnion
• Attestable Software Versioning for Stateful Confidential Computing

  SysTEX'22

  Charly Castes, Edouard Bugnion
• Decentralized In-Order Execution of Sequential Task-Based Code for Shared-Memory Architectures

  IPDPSW'22

  Charly Castes, Emmanuel Agullo, Olivier Aumage, Emmanuelle Saillard
• Enclosure: language-based restriction of untrusted libraries

  ASPLOS'21

  Adrien Ghosn, Marios Kogias, Mathias Payer, James R. Larus, Edouard Bugnion

  Note: Implemented the Intel MPK backend as part of a semester project.

Visiting

• Google, System Research Group 2023

  Host: Andrew Baumann

Service

Academic

• JSys: Assistant Editor 2023 - ongoing
• EuroSys 2023: Artifact Evaluation Committee
• EuroSys 2022: Artifact Evaluation Committee

Other

• EPFL IC School Council 2023 - ongoing

  Scientific Staff Representative
• EPFL IC Graduate Student Association 2022 - ongoing

  Committee Member

Supervised Students

• Noé Terrier
  • Exploring Kernel Drivers in Rust 2023

    Links:
• Maëlys Billon
  • A Communication Library for TEEs 2023

    Links:
  • Trusted Boot with Intel TXT 2022

    Links:
• Filippo Costa
  • Verifying Rust Code with Serval 2022

    Links:
• David Desboeufs
  • A Finite Interface Frame Allocator 2022

    Links:
• Michael Paper
  • Verified Page Tables Manipulation 2022

    Links:

Teaching

I was TA for the following classes at EPFL:

• Decentralized System Engineering 2023

  Prof: Pierluca Borsò-Tan
• Global Issues: Communication 2023

  Profs: James Larus, Anna Jobin
• Projet Programmation Système 2022

  Profs: Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Edouard Bugnion
• Foundation of Software 2021

  Prof: Martin Odersky