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Curriculum vitae. Academic service is listed separately on the service page.
Contact Information
| Name | Coen De Roover |
| Professional Title | Full Professor of Software Engineering |
| coen.de.roover@vub.be | |
| Location | Pleinlaan 2, Elsene (Brussels), 1050 |
Professional Summary
Full Professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Research on program analysis, automated testing, software maintenance and evolution, software analytics, and application security.
Recurring terms across our publication abstracts.
Career timeline:
- 2004: Licentiate in Computer Science (now equivalent to a Master of Science), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 2009: PhD in Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 2013 (Mar–Sep): Part-Time Research Professor (10%, VUB Research Fund), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Theme: “Quality Assurance Techniques for Complex Software”
- 2013–2016: Assistant Professor (Docent), 50% part-time, Software Languages Lab (SOFT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 2014 (Mar–Aug): Specially-Appointed Assistant Professor, Software Engineering Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan
- 2015–2020: Assistant Professor (Docent), full-time, Software Languages Lab (SOFT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 2020–2024: Associate Professor (Hoofddocent), Software Languages Lab (SOFT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- 2025–present: Full Professor (Hoogleraar), Software Languages Lab (SOFT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Experience
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2025 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member, Innovation and Valorization Council
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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2023 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Chair, Faculty Student Affairs Committee (Commissie Studentenzaken)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
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2023 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Effective Member, Faculty Council (Faculteitsraad)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Alternate member since 2013.
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2023 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member, Faculty Bureau (Faculteitsbureau)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
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2023 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member, "Dual Technologies, Military Research and Misuse" Ethics Committee (ECDMM)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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2022 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member, Programme Board (Opleidingsraad)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence
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2019 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Chair, Programme Board (Opleidingsraad)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
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2016 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member (Deputy Chair since 2021), Examination Committee
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Master of Science in Applied Informatics
Except 2020–2021.
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2016 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member, Joint Programme Board (Opleidingsraad)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Master in Engineering: Computer Science / Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science / Master of Science in Applied Informatics
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2015 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member (Deputy Chair since 2021), Examination Committee
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Master in Engineering: Computer Science / Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science
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2014 - Present Brussels, Belgium
Member (Deputy Chair since 2021), Examination Committee
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
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2018 - 2025 Brussels, Belgium
Member, Faculty PR Committee (Commissie PR)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Representing the Computer Science department.
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2018 - 2025 Brussels, Belgium
Recruitment and Communications
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Department of Computer Science
Responsible for recruitment activities and the annual revision of programme brochures and website texts.
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2022 - 2024 Brussels, Belgium
Member, Entry Tests Committee (Commissie Starttoetsen)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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2022 - 2023 Brussels, Belgium
Member, Committee on Inclusive Education (Commissie Inclusief Onderwijs)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Education
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2009 Brussels, Belgium
PhD in Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
A Logic Meta Programming Foundation for Example-Driven Pattern Detection in Object-Oriented Programs
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2004 Brussels, Belgium
Licentiate in Computer Science (now equivalent to Master of Science)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Incorporating Dynamic Analysis and Approximate Reasoning in Declarative Meta-Programming to Support Software Re-engineering
Awards
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2025 Distinguished Research Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
For the paper “Smelling Secrets: Leveraging Machine Learning and Language Models for Sensitive Parameter Detection in Ansible”.
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2025 Distinguished Dataset Award
International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)
For the dataset paper “E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects”.
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2024 Most Influential Paper Award
IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)
For the paper “Visualizing the Evolution of Systems and their Library Dependencies”.
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2023 Distinguished Reviewer Award
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
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2022 Best Artifact Award
IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
For the paper “Summary-Based Compositional Analysis for Soft Contract Verification”.
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2022 Best Artifact Award
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
For the paper “Static Stack-Preserving Intra-Procedural Slicing of WebAssembly Binaries”.
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2022 IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Paper Award
IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE)
For the paper “Uncovering Library Features from API Usage on Stack Overflow”.
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2021 Distinguished Reviewer Award
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
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2020 Distinguished Reviewer Award
IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
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2018 Distinguished Reviewer Award
IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
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2016 Best Tool Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
For the paper “Automated Generalization and Refinement of Code Templates with Ekeko/X”.
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2016 Distinguished Reviewer Award
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
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2015 Best Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM)
For the paper “Detecting Function Purity in JavaScript”.
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2012 Best Student Paper Award
International Conference on Software Composition (SC)
For the paper “Constructing Customized Interpreters from Reusable Evaluators using GAME”.