About Me
My name is Keiichi Watanabe. I’m a senior software engineer at Google. I earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo in 2018.
Education
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Tokyo, 2018
- B.S. in Information Science, University of Tokyo, 2016
Work Experiences
Software Engineer, Google Japan
April 2018 - Present
A senior software engineer on the ChromeOS platform team. I’m a tech lead for a team that develops virtualization technology to run Android apps on Chromebooks.
- Developing and maintaining crosvm, a multi-platform virtual machine monitor written in Rust for ChromeOS.
- Developing and optimizing file systems for Android VM.
- Designed and implemented a virtio-video decoder to deliver hardware-accelerated video decoding inside Android VM. Proposed patches to the Linux community.
Publications
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
- Keiichi Watanabe, Takeshi Tsukada, Hiroki Oshikawa and Naoki Kobayashi: “Reduction from Branching-Time Property Verification of Higher-Order Programs to HFL Validity Checking.” In the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM 2019), Cascais, Portugal, 2019. PDF
- Naoki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tsukada, Keiichi Watanabe: “Higher-Order Program Verification via HFL Model Checking.” In the 27th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018. arXiv
- Keiichi Watanabe, Ryosuke Sato, Takeshi Tsukada and Naoki Kobayashi: “Automatically Disproving Fair Termination of Higher-Order Functional Programs.” In the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2016), Nara, Japan, 2016. Paper
Software
- Crosvm - Virtual machine monitor in Rust for ChromeOS
- Constexpr-8cc - C compiler implemented as C++’s conctexpr
- Libtracecmd-rs - Rust library for analyzing and profiling Linux’s ftrace data
- UCC - C89 compiler in OCaml
- A-Puzzle-A-Day solver - A puzzle solver implemented in Rust + WebAssembly + TypeScript.
For more of my open-source projects, see GitHub.