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GlucOS: Security, correctness, and simplicity for automated insulin delivery

Hari Venugopalan, Shreyas Madhav Ambattur Vijayanand, Caleb Stanford, Stephanie Crossen and 1 more

May 29, 2026

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We present GlucOS, a novel system for trustworthy automated insulin delivery. Fundamentally, this paper is about a system we designed, implemented, and deployed on real humans and the lessons learned from our experiences. GlucOS introduces a novel architecture that allows users to personalize diabetes management using any predictive model (including ML) for insulin dosing while simultaneously protecting them against malicious models. We also introduce a novel holistic security mechanism that adapts to unprecedented changes to human physiology. We use formal methods to prove correctness of critical components and incorporate humans as part of our defensive strategy. Our evaluation includes both a real-world deployment with seven individuals and results from simulation to show that our techniques generalize. We highlight that our results are not from a lab study, with people using GlucOS to manage Type 1 Diabetes in their daily lives. Our results show that GlucOS maintains safety and improves glucose control even under attack conditions. This work demonstrates the potential for secure, personalized, automated healthcare systems. Our entire source code is available at this link.

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Hari Venugopalan

first | University of California, Davis

Shreyas Madhav Ambattur Vijayanand

middle | University of California, Davis

Caleb Stanford

middle | University of California, Davis

Stephanie Crossen

middle | University of California, Davis | ORCID 0000-0001-9829-6898

Samuel T. King

last | University of California, Davis

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@article{Venugopalan2026GlucOS,
  title = {GlucOS: Security, correctness, and simplicity for automated insulin delivery},
  author = {Hari Venugopalan and Shreyas Madhav Ambattur Vijayanand and Caleb Stanford and Stephanie Crossen and Samuel T. King},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3745756.3809198},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3745756.3809198}
}

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