Prof. Abdelzaher is especially interested in developing theory, architectural support, and computing abstractions for predictability in software systems, motivated by increasing software complexity and the growing sources of non-determinism. Applications range from sensor networks to large-scale server farms, and from avionics to homeland defense.
Professor Adve's broad research interest lies in using compilers (more generally, program analysis and transformation techniques) as tools for improving the performance, programmability, and security of modern computer systems. His research emphasizes the development of novel systems, compilation techniques, and (where necessary) language features to address these problems.
Processors, memory, storage, networking are becoming so small, powerful, and inexpensive that they are giving birth to a new generation of digital infrastructure, in which computing, communication, sensing, and control are tightly integrated.