Group Members

We are often looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

Jump to staff, master students, or alumni.

Staff

Prof. Etienne Rivière

Professor
email: etienne.riviere@uclouvain.be

Dr. Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel

Post-doctoral researcher
email: charles-henry.bertrand@uclouvain.be

  • Ph.D. UCLouvain
  • Topic: malware detection, machine learning for cybersecurity, symbolic execution.
  • Research coordinator in the CyberExcellence Walloon flagship cyber-security project.

Samy Bettaieb

PhD Student
email: samy.bettaieb@uclouvain.be

Corentin Libert

PhD Student
email: corentin.libert@uclouvain.be

  • M.Sc UCLouvain
  • Topic: fairness and security of layer-2 blockchain infrastructures.
  • Researcher for CyberExcellence.

Serena Lucca

PhD Student
email: serena.lucca@uclouvain.be

  • M.Sc UCLouvain, 2022
  • Topic: malware detection with Machine Learning.
  • Researcher for CyberExcellence.

Matthieu Pigaglio

PhD Student
email: matthieu.pigaglio@uclouvain.be

  • M.Sc ENSEIRB, France
  • Topic: performance and scalability of blockchain infrastructures.

Donatien Schmitz

PhD Student
email: donatien.schmitz@uclouvain.be

  • M.Sc UCLouvain, 2021
  • Topic: resource management for cloud computing and big data applications.
  • Involved in the GEPICIAD collaborative project.

Maxime Vanliefde

PhD Student (FNRS Research Fellow)
email: maxime.vanliefde@uclouvain.be

  • M.Sc UCLouvain, 2024
  • Topic: Bridging the gap between genericity and high performance in sequence processing on modern hardware.
  • Joinly supervised by Pr. Tom Barbette of the ENSG group.

This could be you !

See openings for more info
email: etienne.riviere@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