Research Identity

My work converges around structured reasoning about system performance, reproducible evaluation infrastructure, and safe systems migration, bridging theory and practice. I am building tools and methods that help understand and reason about system behavior, not just measure it.

Active Projects

DEFRA

Coordinator · 2024–2028

Belgian Defence (RHID) project on transpiling legacy C/C++ to Rust for safety and security.

FWO Senior Research Project

VUB Supervisor · 2025–2028

Time-Proportional Speedup Stacks. Joint with L. Eeckhout (UGent) and M. Jahre (NTNU).

CRPF

Co-PI · 2024–2029

Cybersecurity Research Program Flanders. Low-level secure software systems.

imec Industrial PhD

Supervisor · from 2024

Software framework for safe collaborative robots, joint with KU Leuven.

Open-Source Tools

benchkit

Declarative performance evaluation framework. Published at ICPE'26 with all artifact badges.

Pythainer

Composable Docker builders for reproducible research. Published in JOSS.

Service & Visibility

  • General Chair, ECRTS'25 (hosted at VUB, ~100 attendees)
  • Co-Chair, OSPERT'26 workshop
  • TPC: DSD'26, RTNS'26
  • ERC remote referee (2025)
  • Shadow PC, EuroSys'25
  • Invited talks: UCLouvain, INRIA Paris, Huawei Summit, UMons keynote
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computers