Applied Research in High-Assurance Autonomous Systems.
Our research agenda spans distributed-systems verification, resilient edge network operations under degraded links, memory-safe cryptographic provenance, high-velocity differential graph computation, and deterministic guardrails for AI-assisted operations.
Isolating Structural Failure Modes in Distributed & Autonomous Infrastructure.
Each thrust addresses a concrete observability, latency, or cryptographic integrity gap across multi-cloud control planes, tactical edge networks, and software supply chains.
Asynchronous State, Transition & Authority Verification
Investigates consistency conditions and partial-order semantics for verifying resource state, transition execution readbacks, and delegated principal authority when observations arrive asynchronously across independent control planes.
Replaces point-in-time snapshot assumptions with causal partial-order evaluation over Hybrid Logical Clocks and deterministic rollback contracts.
Resilient Mesh Routing & Disconnected State Convergence
Addresses authority divergence and state partitioning when edge nodes operate across intermittent, low-bandwidth, or degraded RF/satellite links without continuous upstream reachability.
Combines cryptographically bounded local autonomy envelopes with sub-500ms autonomous transport failover and compact Merkle-root anti-entropy reconciliation.
Continuous Build-to-Runtime Artifact Attestation
Eliminates the assurance gap between build-time software provenance and live container or kernel execution states, defending against mutable artifact registries and post-deployment drift.
Anchors SBOM dependency graphs and hermetic build attestations to live runtime digests inside a 100% memory-safe Rust verification harness.
Privacy-Preserving Differential Subgraph Computation
Formulates incremental subgraph update operators that maintain multi-hop reachability, effective permissions, and security invariants over high-rate telemetry streams without batch graph recomputation.
Pairs out-of-order stream watermarking with keyed attribute commitments so multi-hop privilege and boundary violations are surfaced in sub-second to low-second latency.
Causal Space-Time Verification & Control-Plane Simulator
Causal Control-Plane Verification
STATE(t_0..t_1) + MUTATION_READBACK(t_2) + DELEGATION_ENVELOPE(t_0..t_3) => INVARIANT_HELDPre-transition resource state, deterministic execution readback, and scoped principal delegation all bind to a single causal history across distributed control planes.
Cryptographic configuration state attested prior to transition execution.
Deterministic state transition verified with pre-staged rollback contract.
Delegation lease spans full pre-state and execution interval without revocation.
Autonomous Edge Mesh & Differential Telemetry Graph
Deterministic Transport Failover & Partition Healing
Maintains cryptographic authority bounds and state convergence across intermittent or degraded links without central control-plane dependency.
Bounding Generative Entropy With Checkable Guardrails.
Stochastic language models sample from probability distributions, introducing nonzero Shannon entropy and hallucination risk when proposing infrastructure mutations or synthesizing operational telemetry.
AeoliTech confines AI-proposed actions to bounded execution envelopes where every proposed query or state transition must pass deterministic policy evaluation and cryptographic state verification before execution.
LLM Entropy Visualization
Exploring uncertainty and randomness in language model predictions
Token Probability Distribution
Generated Sequence
Foundational Distributed-Systems & Security Literature
Our engineering builds upon established work in access-control calculi, proof-carrying authentication, causally consistent authorization, and formal policy verification.
A Calculus for Access Control in Distributed Systems
Foundational formalization of principals, delegation, and speaks-for relations in distributed environments.
https://doi.org/10.1145/155183.155225Proof-Carrying Authentication
Establishes checkable logical proofs for admission decisions across administrative domains.
https://doi.org/10.1145/319709.319718Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System
Causal consistency ordering for authorization state mutations and revocation propagation.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/pangCedar: A New Language for Expressive, Fast, Safe, and Analyzable Authorization
Formally verified policy evaluation and automated reasoning over authorization specifications.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3649835Partner With AeoliTech on National-Security & Enterprise Systems
AEOLITECH, INC. collaborates with DOE/NNSA National Laboratories, DoD research and program offices, federal systems integrators, and enterprise engineering organizations.