Group Members
We are often looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !
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Staff
Dr. Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel
Post-doctoral researcher
email: charles-henry.bertrand@uclouvain.be
Alumni
Dr. Vikas Jaiman
April to December 2018
Role: Researcher, involved in the EBSIS H2020 and DIONASYS projects. Research on performance in key value stores under heterogeneous workloads. Now a research scientist at Lisk | Lightcurve, Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Ayham Kassab
December 2019 to November 2021
Role: Post-doctoral researcher, involved in the FairBCaaS project.
Dr. Michał Król
June 2019 to July 2020
Role: Post-doctoral researcher. Now a senior lecturer at City, University of London, UK.
Dr. Guillaume Rosinosky
June 2019 to December 2023
Role: Post-doctoral researcher. Now an associate professor in the STACK team at IMT Atlantique, France.
Dr. Clay Palmeira Da Silva
March 2021 to December 2021
Role: Post-doctoral researcher. Now a lecturer at University of Huddersfield, UK
Dr. Viet-Hoang Tran
February 2020 to November 2021
Role: Post-doctoral researcher, involved in the FairBCaaS project. Now at Nokia, Belgium.
Dr. Igor Zavalyshyn
January 2021 to January 2023
Role: Post-doctoral researcher, involved in the SSHC project. Now at Centrica, Belgium.
Current Master Students
Yassine Benserhir
Master student, ‘Multi-tenant secure processing in the cloud’
Antoine Deleux and Maxime Delacroix
Master students, ‘Content-based routing for event-sourced applications in multi-site deployments’
Liza Denis and Charline Meurant
Master students, ‘Adversarial analysis and strengthening of ML-based phishing email detection’
Valentin Kola
Master student, ‘Improving HubOS, an Operating System for smart homes’
Manuelle Ndamtang
Master student, ‘Local-first and private-by-design smart surveillance applications’
Elliot Verstraelen
Master student, ‘Middleware for edge/cloud application deployments’
Graduated Master Students
Silya Rachik
Master student (2025), ‘Live migration of NoSQL databases in the cloud’
Badr-Eddine Aji
Master student (2024), ‘High Availability Solutions for Slurm in HPC Clusters Using Kubernetes’ (in collaboration with Dr. Damien François, CISM, UCLouvain)
Simon Arys and Romain Carlier
Master student (2024), ‘Energy-aware scheduling for ISA-heterogeneous clusters, from process-level power estimations to cluster-wide energy efficiency’ - paper published at WoSC 2024
Camille Caulier
Master student (2024), ‘Enhancing distributed stream processing, novel keygrouping methods and their comparative analysis’ (in collaboration with Dr. Alexandre Da Silva Veith, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium)
Romain Claessens
Master student (2024), ‘Expanding ethereum’s validator pool, secure transaction validation delegation for low-power nodes with Intel SGX’
Valentin Baillieux and Antoine Dumoulin
Master students (2023), ‘Data leaks and suspicious behavior detection in smart home using Taint Analysis‘
Brandon Ngoran Ntam and Mathieu Cosyns
Master students (2023), ‘A social network around the elderly in home care scenarios‘
Adrien Giot and Maxime De Neuville
Master students (2023), ‘RDMA-powered proxy communication‘
Stanislas Gorremans
Master student (2023), ‘The democratic smart home‘
Colin Evrard and Julien Lienard
Master students (2022), ‘Anomaly detection on edge, A federated learning approach’ (in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Klein, SIRRIS, Brussels)
Nicolas Gennart
Master student (2022), ‘Access control in the OpenHAB smart home environment‘
François Genon and Sébastien Pierre
Master students (2022), ‘An Eclipse attack on content availability in IPFS, a large-scale decentralized storage service’ (in collaboration with Dr. Michał Król, City, University of London, UK) - paper published at NDSS 2024
Hugo Lloreda Sanchez and Sophie Tysebaert
Master students (2022), ‘AuditTrust, Blockchain-Based Audit Trail for Sharing Data in a Distributed Environment’ (in collaboration with Dr. Annanda Rath, SIRRIS, Brussels) - paper published at SERENE 2022.
François Froment
Master student (2021), ‘High performance computing for simulation of proton therapy treatments’
Stanley Goffinet and Donatien Schmitz
Master students (2021), ‘Controlling security rules using natural dialogue, An application to smart home care’ - paper published at UbiComp-ISWC 2021
Samir Marini Mohamed and Edgar Gevorgyan
Master student (2021), ‘ErasMail, un outil open source pour aider les citoyens à évaluer et à réduire l’impact environnemental de leurs courriers électroniques dans le cloud’ -
Guillaume Ortegat
Master student (2021), ‘Leveraging edge proximity and diversity in interactive stateful applications’ - paper published in ACM Proceedings on Human-Computer Interaction, 2022
Alexandre Moueddene and Maxime Clement
Master student (2021), ‘DAVE, Deterministic, Adaptive, Verifiable and Efficient transaction placement for sharded UTXO blockchains‘
Laritza Cabrera Alba
Master student (2020), ‘Predicting records size with neural networks in key-value stores under heterogeneous multiget workloads‘
Maxime De Streel
Master student (2020), ‘Temporary infrastructures and Ah-Hoc networking for Mars explorers’, in collaboration with the UCL to Mars project
Antoine Denauw and Nicolas Sauvenée
Master students (2020), ‘Adding new features to an account management web application at CISM’
Aurélien Widart
Master student (2020), ‘Scalable and extensible social networks‘
Laurent Desausoi
Master student (2020), ‘A Secure and Auditable Dropbox using Intel SGX‘
Gary Lovisetto
Master student (2019), ‘A foundation for extensible and decentralized social networks‘
Samuel Monroe & Rémy Voet
Master students (2019), ‘Integrated platform for distributed systems training‘
Alessandra Rossaro & Corentin Surquin
Master students (2019), ‘Supporting the portability of profiles using the blockchain in the Mastodon social network’
Jérome Navez & Xavier Pérignon
Master students (2018), ‘Development of a cross-platform mobile application using cloud computing‘
Jean-Baptiste Macq & Emilio Gamba
Master students (2018), ‘Parallelization of a hydrogeology simulation tool‘