About
We are an Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) research team at Boston University led by Professor Richard West. We have been working on an RTOS called Quest and a partitioning hypervisor called Quest-V for the last couple of decades.
Richard West
Rich West joined the BU Department of Computer Science in 2000 after completing his PhD at Georgia Tech. Rich is a tinkerer of systems, notably, but not limited to, those in embedded and real-time computing. He likes to take a principled approach to system design, having dabbled in the development of standalone kernels and resource management policies where safety and predictability are paramount. He has studied real-time scheduling and resource management, cache-aware performance of multicore processors, and machine virtualization, amongst other topics. He is currently leading the development of the Quest real-time operating system for multicore processors. Its sister system, Quest-V is a secure and predictable separation kernel that forms a distributed system on a chip, providing efficient, predictable and safe execution of sandboxed guest systems including Linux. Rich is also the Chief Software Architect at Drako Motors where he leads the kernel development for DriveOS, which consolidates mixed-criticality functions on a centralized platform using Quest-V.
Zhiyuan Ruan
Zhiyuan Ruan is a Computer Science PhD student, working with Professor Rich West.
Shriram Raja
Shriram Raja is a Computer Science PhD student, working with Professor Rich West.
Rafiuddin Syed
Rafiuddin Syed is a Kernel Engineer at Drako Motors, working on the development of DriveOS.