Welcome to the home of the Distribution and Concurrency (DisCo) Research Group! We are part of the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). We specialize in programming languages and tools for concurrent and distributed systems, with a focus on:
We invite you to explore our research further, and if you are interested in our work or would like more information, please feel free to contact us.
| 2026 | ||
| 🔬 | October 7th, 2026 | Thomas Vandermotten has been awarded a personal FWO-FO grant! |
| 👤 | October 1st, 2026 | Stoffel Oostvogels has joined the group! |
| 🎓 | August 31st, 2026 | The DARE 26 summer school has started! Elisa and Jim will be presenting CRDTs from a Programming Language Implementation Perspective. |
| 📖 | August 11th, 2026 | New publication: DWasm: Portable Debugging for the Web |
| 📖 | July 16th, 2026 | New publication: The Cost of Purity: Scalability Challenges in the Pure Operation-based CRDT Framework |
| 🔬 | June 11th, 2026 | Getting ready for ECOOP’26! See all Disco research contributions here. |
| 📖 | June 9th, 2026 | New publication: Dynamic Software Updates using CRDTs |
| 📖 | June 9th, 2026 | New publication: In the Shadows I trust: Shadow Execution Analysis Support for a Datalog-based IAST Framework |
| 🔬 | June 4th, 2026 | Elisa delivered a keynote on programming distributed systems with replicated state at GDR SciLog 2026, the 1st Congrès des Sciences du Logiciel, held at Polytech Lille, France. |
| 🎓 | June 1st, 2026 | Deadline extension for the DARE 26 summer school, thanks to additional funding from ACM and SIGSOFT. |
| 🎓 | April 24th, 2026 | Registration for the 4th Summer School on Distributed and Repliacated Environments (DARE 2026) opens! |
| 🔬 | February 1st, 2026 | Jim presented research results on distributed abstractions and techniques for replicated state at the Local-first, sync engines, CRDT developer room at FOSDEM’26. |
| 2025 | ||
| 🎓 | November 23rd, 2025 | One year more we are organizing an activity for youngsters at Dag van de Wetenschap |
| 🔬 | November 13th, 2025 | We are kicking off the FWO SODISA project at the Cyber Security Industry Day 2025 |
| 👤 | October 15th, 2025 | Dr. Tom Lauwaerts has joined the group! |
