People

Amit Levy

Research Scientist & Executive Director

Amit has nearly two decades researching and deploying secure systems. Hi research focuses on designing secure systems to empower developers and their applications through building practical and secure operating systems and distributed systems. Amit’s papers have appeared in systems, programming language, embedded systems, security, and networking venues, and his work has served as the basis for commercially deployed systems, startups and a number of open source projects. He is the recipient of a Google faculty award, an NSF CAREER fellowship, and NSF and DARPA grants.

Johnathan Van Why

Research Scientist

Johnathan is has over a decade of experience designing, building, and deploying secure embedded systems. He is a core contributor to the Tock operating system and a variety of other open source projects. He is also a board member of the Oregon State flying club. Prior to joining Better Bytes he was a Senior Software Engineer at Google.

Branden Ghena

Affiliate Scientist

Branden is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Northwestern University. He generally teaches courses in the “computer science systems” domain, and his specialty is in resource-constrained embedded systems and wireless networks for them.