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

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Graduated Master Students

• Henri Pihet and Sacha Defrère: Master students (2026), 'Integrating PETS in Smart Home programming models and runtimes'
• Virgile Devolder: Master student (2026), 'Understanding and hardening GossipSub'
• Luca Hafhouf and Axel Khalil: Master students (2026), 'Differentially Private Stream Processing in Apache Flink'
• Martin Devolder: Master student (2026), 'Secure multi-tenant stream processing'
• Arthur De Neyer and Elie Khoury: Master students (2026), 'Secure, trustworthy, and interoperable API gateways for heterogeneous digital assets in renewable energy environments'
• Valentin Kola: Master student (2026), 'Improving HubOS, an Operating System for smart homes'
• Yassine Benserhir: Master student (2025), 'Multi-tenant secure processing in the cloud'
• Antoine Deleux and Maxime Delacroix: Master students (2025), 'Content-based routing for event-sourced applications in multi-site deployments'
• Liza Denis and Charline Meurant: Master students (2025), 'Adversarial analysis and strengthening of ML-based phishing email detection'
• Manuelle Ndamtang: Master student (2025), 'Local-first and private-by-design smart surveillance applications'
• Elliot Verstraelen: Master student (2025), 'Middleware for edge/cloud application deployments'
• 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'