Research
My research interests lie at the intersection of systems and software engineering. I am especially intrigued by how emergent behaviors can occur and impact the correctness of systems, and how we can enable systems to detect and react to such behaviors through software. Recently, I have found a home in studying autonomous vehicles (AVs). AVs rely on a solid foundation at this intersection of systems and software; they are safety-critical systems comprised of multiple smaller systems that coordinate the global behavior through software. I have been investigating how we can enable AVs to detect, reason, and react to emergent behaviors while considering energy and timing overheads.
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Research Experience
I am currently focusing on two main areas: applications of machine learning in low-power embedded systems and the development of innovative teaching tools.
In the low-power embedded systems space, I’m mentoring undergraduate students at NC State to explore how different ML workflows can be deployed in resource-limited environments. We’re also profiling these workflows across various architectures to analyze trade-offs between applications and environments.
On the teaching tools front, I’m working with undergraduate students at NC State to develop AssemBliss, a VS Code extension designed to enhance the experience of teaching and learning assembly language.
Publications
Journal Articles
[J4] SAFER: Safety Assurances For Emergent Behavior
Caio Batista de Melo, Marzieh Ashrafiamiri, Minjun Seo, Fadi Kurdahi, and Nikil Dutt ;
Appeared at the IEEE Design & Test, 2024.
[J3] LOCoCAT: Low-Overhead Classification of CAN Bus Attack Types
Caio Batista de Melo and Nikil Dutt ;
Appeared at the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2023.
[J2] The Self-Aware Information Processing Factory Paradigm for Mixed-Critical Multiprocessing
Eberle A. Rambo, Bryan Donyanavard, Minjun Seo, Florian Maurer, Thawra M. Kadeed, Caio B. de Melo, Biswadip Maity, Anmol Surhonne, Andreas Herkersdorf, Fadi Kurdahi, Nikil D. Dutt, and Rolf Ernst ;
Appeared at the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2022.
[J1] Characterization of Implied Scenarios as Families of Common Behavior
Caio Batista de Melo, André Luiz Fernandes Cançado, and Genaína Nunes Rodrigues ;
Appeared at the Journal of Systems and Software, 2019.
Peer-reviewed Conferences
[C3] Information Processing Factory 2.0 - Self-awareness for Autonomous Collaborative Systems
Nora Sperling, Alex Bendrick, Dominik Stöhrmann, Rolf Ernst, Bryan Donyanavard, Florian Maurer, Oliver Lenke, Anmol Surhonne, Andreas Herkersdorf, Walaa Amer, Caio Batista de Melo, Ping-Xiang Chen, Quang Anh Hoang, Rachid Karami, Biswadip Maity, Paul Nikolian, Mariam Rakka, Dongjoo Seo, Saehanseul Yi, Minjun Seo, Nikil Dutt, and Fadi Kurdahi;
Appeared at the 2023 DATE conference.
[C2] The Information Processing Factory: A Paradigm for Life Cycle Management of Dependable System
Eberle A. Rambo, Thawra Kadeed, Rolf Ernst, Minjun Seo, Fadi Kurdahi, Bryan Donyanavard, Caio Batista de Melo, Biswadip Maity, Kasra Moazzemi, Kenneth Stewart, Saehanseul Yi, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil Dutt, Florian Maurer, Nguyen Anh Vu Doan, Anmol Surhonne, Thomas Wild, and Andreas Herkersdorf ;
Appeared at the 2019 CODES+ISSS conference.
[C1] WATSHERE: A Watson Cognitive System to Navigate Social/Health Resources for Public Schools
Anna Poulakas, Alon Yoeli, Sebastian Deossa, Caio Batista de Melo, D. Frank Hsu, Dawn J. Adams, Cesarina Javier, and Anita V. Batisti ;
Appeared at the 2017 Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA) conference.
Book Chapters
[BC1] Reflecting on Self-aware Systems-on-Chip
Bryan Donyanavard, Tiago Mück, Kasra Moazzemi, Biswadip Maity, Caio Batista de Melo, Kenneth Stewart, Saehanseul Yi, Amir M. Rahmani, and Nikil Dutt ;
Part of A Journey of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer, 2021.
Technical Reports
[TR1] The Information Processing Factory: Organization, Terminology, and Definitions
Eberle A. Rambo, Bryan Donyanavard, Minjun Seo, Florian Maurer, Thawra Kadeed, Caio B. de Melo, Biswadip Maity, Anmol Surhonne, Andreas Herkersdorf, Fadi J. Kurdahi, Nikil D. Dutt, and Rolf Ernst ;
Available at arXiv:1907.01578, 2019.
Presentations
LOCoCAT: Low-Overhead Classification of CAN Bus Attack Types
Caio Batista de Melo, Nikil Dutt ;
Late-Breaking Track at the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, 2023.
Characterization of Implied Scenarios as Families of Common Behavior
Caio Batista de Melo, André Luiz Fernandes Cançado, and Genaína Nunes Rodrigues ;
Journal-First Track at the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2020.
The Information Processing Factory
Kenneth Stewart, Caio Batista de Melo, Saehanseul Yi, and Nikil Dutt ;
Poster at the 1st UCI/UCR/UPHF International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems and their Applications in Intelligent and Connected Transportation System, 2019.
Self-Aware Systems-On-Chip
Kenneth Stewart, Caio Batista de Melo, Saehanseul Yi, and Nikil Dutt ;
Poster at the Richard Newton Young Fellow Forum at the Design Automation Conference, 2019.
The Information Processing Factory
Kenneth Stewart, Caio Batista de Melo, Saehanseul Yi, and Nikil Dutt ;
Poster at the Richard Newton Young Fellow Forum at the Design Automation Conference, 2019.
Implied Scenario Detection Oriented Dependability Analysis
Caio Batista de Melo and Genaína Nunes Rodrigues ;
Poster at the joint 23rd University of Brasilia/14th Federal District Undergraduate Research Workshop, 2017.
Service
Mentoring
NC State Senior Design Center
Project Sponsor (Spring ‘24)
Mentored a team of 5 undergraduate students working on a senior capstone project to develop tools for CSC 236.
UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Research Discovery
Mentor (Winter ‘22 - Spring ‘22)
Mentored a total of four UCI undergraduate students that wanted to learn more about research, how projects work, and how they could start finding opportuinities.
Global Research Experience in Artificial Intelligence (GREAT) Program
Mentor (Winter ‘22)
Mentored a total of three undergraduate exchange students across two active research projects.
Throughout this program I met regularly with these students and helped them get up to speed with the projects, and set them up to a position where they could contribute significantly.
Peer-Reviewer
International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS)
2023
International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS)
2019, 2021, 2022
Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
2021, 2022
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
2022
International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID)
2021