Antonio Paolillo

Antonio Paolillo

Professor · Computer Scientist · Software Engineer
Software Languages Lab (SOFT)
Dept. of Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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About

I am an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in the Software Languages Lab (SOFT). My research converges around structured reasoning about system performance, reproducible evaluation infrastructure, and safe systems migration, bridging theory and practice.

Before joining VUB in November 2023, I worked as an Operating System Software Architect at Huawei (2019–2023) and as an OS engineer at HIPPEROS (2012–2019), a spin-off of ULB. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2018.

At a Glance

20+
Publications
Journals, conferences, workshops
5+
Funded projects
DEFRA, FWO, imec, CRPF, VUB
4
PhD students
Active research team
ECRTS'25
General Chair
Flagship EU RT conference at VUB

Research Themes

01
Structured Performance Reasoning
Tools and methods that help understand and reason about system performance, not just measure it.
benchkit Pythainer reproducible evaluation
02
Safe Systems Migration
Transpiling legacy C/C++ to Rust for safety and security, with formal guarantees on semantic equivalence.
C-to-Rust DEFRA project Oxidize/Ferrum
03
Real-Time & Embedded Systems
OS design, scheduling, and performance analysis for safety-critical and resource-constrained platforms.
scheduling OS design multi-core energy efficiency