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Coen De Roover leads the Code Analysis and Manipulation (CAMP) group, a focus group within the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The central theme of its research is the design of program analyses, and their application to problems in software quality — see the research page for the topics this covers and the projects it spans.

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Current Members

Postdocs

• Ruben Opdebeeck — with the group since 2019

• Gilberto Recupito — with the group since 2026 (PhD from University of Salerno)

• Giacomo Benedetti — with the group since 2026 (PhD from University of Genoa)

PhD Students

• Bram Vandenbogaerde — since 2021

• Cindy Wauters — since 2022

• Noah Van Es — since 2017

• Sander Huyghebaert — since 2020. Joint PhD with KU Leuven, co-supervised by Dominique Devriese.

• Yunior Pacheco Correa — since 2017

• Mohammed Abdrrahim Lahmar — since 2024. Joint PhD with IMT Atlantique, co-supervised by Wolfgang De Meuter, Mario Südholt, and Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis.

• Irina Samus — since 2025. Joint PhD with IMT Atlantique, co-supervised by Jens Nicolay and Mario Südholt.

• Carlo Venditto — since 2026

• Melissa Joy Njenga — since 2026

Alumni

PhD graduates of the group, most recent first.

• Laurent Christophe — Provenance-Aware Dynamic Analysis of JavaScript (January 2026). Promoted together with Wolfgang De Meuter. Researched in the group from 2012 to 2020, then continued as a VUB consultant while completing his PhD, before joining Sirris as a Research Software Engineer in 2025.

• Jens Van der Plas — Incremental Static Program Analysis through Reified Computational Dependencies (November 2024). Promoted together with Quentin Stiévenart. Joined the group in 2019, and continued as a postdoc until 2025. PDF

• Ruben Opdebeeck — Static Analysis for Quality Assurance of Ansible Infrastructure-as-Code Artefacts (October 2024). Promoted. Joined the group in 2019, and continues as a postdoc. PDF

• Ward Muylaert — Data Flow and Control Flow Analysis of Problematic Commits (April 2024). Promoted. Joined the group in 2016, and continued as a postdoc until later in 2024. PDF

• Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez — Extracting Library Features from Incomplete Code on Stack Overflow (March 2024). Promoted. Joined the group in 2018, and continued as a postdoc until 2024. PDF

• Maarten Vandercammen — Inter-Process Concolic Testing of Full-stack JavaScript Web Applications (October 2023). Promoted. Joined the group in 2015, and continued as a postdoc until 2026. PDF

• Jonas De Bleser — An Automated Delta-Debugging Approach to Resilience Testing of Actor Systems through Fault Injection (October 2020). Promoted. Joined the group in 2016, and continued as a postdoc until 2021. PDF

• Quentin Stiévenart — Scalable Designs for Abstract Interpretation of Concurrent Programs: Application to Actors and Shared-Memory Multi-Threading (May 2018). Promoted together with Wolfgang De Meuter. Joined the group in 2014, continued as a postdoc until 2022, and is now a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). PDF

• Jens Nicolay — Purity Analysis for Higher-Order Imperative Languages: an Abstract Machine Approach (June 2016). Promoted together with Wolfgang De Meuter. Joined the group in 2011, continued as a postdoc until 2017, and is now a professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT). PDF

• Reinout Stevens — A Declarative Foundation for Querying the History of Software Projects (May 2017). Promoted together with Viviane Jonckers. Joined the group in 2011, and continued as a postdoc until later in 2017. PDF

Former Members

• Ahmed Zerouali — Postdoc, 2020–2024 (PhD from University of Mons)

• Dario Di Nucci — Postdoc, 2018–2020 (PhD from University of Salerno). Now professor at University of Salerno.

• Tim Molderez — Postdoc, 2014–2020 (PhD from University of Antwerp). Now R&D Engineer at AcademicLabs.

• Johannes Härtel — Postdoc, 2023–2024 (PhD from University of Koblenz-Landau)

• Valeria Pontillo — Postdoc, 2023–2025 (PhD from University of Salerno (2024)). Visited as a PhD intern from University of Salerno, February–April 2022, before returning as a postdoc.

• Nicolas Cuadros — Visiting student. Master’s student from Polytech Nantes, France; research internship June–August 2019.

• Egzona Hyseni — Visiting student. Erasmus+ intern from Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey; research internship July–September 2016.

• Sergio Di Meglio — Visiting PhD student, 2024–2025. From Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; research internship October 2024–April 2025. Now at Google Poland.

• Maarten Vandercammen — PhD student, 2015–2023; Postdoc, 2023–2026

• Jens Van der Plas — PhD student, 2019–2024; Postdoc, 2024–2025

• Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez — PhD student, 2018–2024; Postdoc, 2024

• Ward Muylaert — PhD student, 2016–2024; Postdoc, 2024

• Quentin Stiévenart — PhD student, 2014–2018; Postdoc, 2018–2022. Now professor at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

• Jonas De Bleser — PhD student, 2016–2020; Postdoc, 2020–2021

• Jens Nicolay — PhD student, 2011–2016; Postdoc, 2016–2017. Now professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT).

• Reinout Stevens — PhD student, 2011–2017; Postdoc, 2017. Now CTO at CrazyGames.

• Gilles Coremans — PhD student, 2022–2026

• Sarah Verbelen — PhD student, 2024–2026

• Laure Philips — PhD student, 2012–2017

• Maarten Hubrechts — PhD student