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Reading notes, working documents, and lecture material.

Informal writing — reading notes, half-formed ideas, and material from courses I have taught or attended. Published here for my own reference and in case they are useful to others.

May 2026

The FABRIC Strategy for Verifying Neural Feedback Systems

Notes on the FABRIC strategy for verifying nonlinear neural feedback systems by combining forward reachability, backward reachability, polyhedral enclosures, MILP encodings, DRiPy refinement, and FITS inner-set construction.

neural feedback systemsreachability analysisformal verificationcontrol systemsreading notes

Oct 2024Distributed Systems Classics

Reading Notes: Lamport Clocks and Happens-Before

Notes on Lamport's 1978 paper introducing logical clocks and the happens-before relation, with observations on how the idea maps onto modern distributed databases.

distributed systemsclocksLamportreading notes

Jul 2024Distributed Systems Classics

Working Notes: What Raft Actually Guarantees

Informal notes clarifying which safety and liveness properties Raft provides under which assumptions, written while preparing a talk on adaptive consensus.

distributed systemsRaftconsensusworking notes