Hui Ling Wong
SSI fellow
Imperial College London
I am an aerospace-cum-software engineer. The computational nature of my interdisciplinary research allows me to combine my interests in aeronautics, physics and software. I am currently a PhD researcher in Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College London. My research involves understanding the impact of climate change on aviation, specifically how the increased frequency and intensity of turbulence — brought about by climate change — would affect aircraft design and the safety implications for passengers.
Before this, I worked as a Software Engineer on two UKRI Digital Security by Design (DSbD) projects. These involved bringing hardware-level memory safety guarantees from CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) into the OpenJDK Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Graal compiler. The first project was to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of running e-commerce application software stacks on Arm's CHERI CPU. The second project was to develop a robust and mature JVM which would be able to run guest languages (e.g. JavaScript) through Graal, thereby expanding the protection to code written in non-JVM languages.
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