Team

This page lists the members of the DISCO research group at the Software Languages Lab at the VUB.

Prof. Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix

Head of the group

Distributed programming · Actor-based concurrency · Reflection · Debugging · Consistency

Dr. Angel Luis Scull Pupo

Post-doctoral researcher (Funded by Cybersecurity Research Program Flanders)

Source code instrumentation · Dynamic analysis · Web security

Dr. Jim Bauwens

Post-doctoral researcher

Replicated Data Types · Security

Dr. Tom Lauwaerts

Post-doctoral researcher

Debugging · Security · WebAssembly

Carlos Rojas Castillo

PhD student (Funded by FWO SB grant)

IoT · Debugging · WebAssembly

Aäron Munsters

PhD student (Funded by FWO SB grant)

Program instrumentation · Dynamic analysis · WebAssembly

Dina Borrego

PhD student (Funded by EUTOPIA co-tutelle with NOVA University of Lisbon)

Replicated Data Types · Consistency · Verification

Jonas Sys

PhD student (with UGent)

Parallel Computing · Vectorization · GPU Programming

Thomas Vandermotten

PhD student (Funded by FWO FO grant)

Replicated Data Types · Security · Optimisations

Stoffel Oostvogels

PhD student

Blockchain · Consistency · Optimisations


Previous members

Dr. Kevin De Porre

Oct 2018 – Aug 2026

Software engineer at Databricks

Prof. Dr. Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo

Oct 2017 – Jan 2024

Lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya

Dr. Matteo Marra

Oct 2017 – Dec 2022

Researcher Software Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, Antwerp

Dr. Carmen Torres Lopez

Jun 2016 – Jul 2022

Agilent Technologies, Ghent

Dr. Clément Béra

Feb 2018 – Jan 2019

Software engineer working on the Android Studio compiler at Google

Thomas Dupriez

Mar 2018 – Aug 2018

Engineer at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Dr. Guillermo Polito

Oct 2015 – Feb 2016

Researcher at Inria, CRIStAL laboratory