Current Members
Serge Demeyer
University of Antwerp
Serge Demeyer is a professor at the University of Antwerp (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) and part of the ANSYMO research group. He directs a research lab investigating the theme of "Software Reengineering" (LORE - Lab On REengineering). In 2007 he received a "Best teacher" award from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Antwerp. As a consequence he remains very active in all matters related to teaching quality.
His main research interest concerns software reengineering, more specifically the evolution of object-oriented software systems. He is an active member of the corresponding international research communities, serving in various conference organization and program committees. The University of Antwerp hosted a number of influential scientific conferences among others the 15th edition of the "Working Conference on Reverse Engineering" (WCRE) in September 2008; the 25th edition of the renowned "Automated Software Engineering Conference" (ASE) in September 2010 and (last but not least) the "Software Evolution Week" (CSMR-WCRE 2013) in February 2013. He has written a book entitled "Object-Oriented Reengineering" and edited a book on "Software Evolution". He also authored numerous peer reviewed articles, many of them in highly respected scientific journals. He completed his M.Sc. in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1996, both at the "Vrije Universiteit Brussel". After his Ph.D., he worked for three years in Switzerland, where he served as a technical co-ordinator of an European research project. Switzerland remains near and dear to his heart, witness the sabbatical leave during 2009-2010 at the University of Zürich in the research group SEAL.
Coen De Roover
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Coen De Roover is an associate professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The central theme of his research is the design of program analyses, and their application to problems in software quality. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles in the domain, and he is actively involved in collaborative research projects of a fundamental, strategic, or applied nature. He frequently serves on the program committee for conferences such as ASE, MSR, ICSME, SANER, and SCAM.
Mutlu Beyazit
University of Antwerp
Mutlu Beyazit is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory on Reengineering (LoRe) un ANSYMO research group at the University of Antwerp.
His current interests include (but not limited to) model-based testing, mutation testing, automated test generation and test amplification.
Camilo Velázquez Rodríguez
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Software Languages Lab from the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium.
His research interests include (but are not limited to) library usages in large software ecosystems, optimisation techniques, machine and deep learning and mathematical modelling.
Maarten Vandercammen
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Maarten Vandercammen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
His research interests include automated test generation, fuzz testing (and its application to security), and symbolic execution.
Valeria Pontillo
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Valeria Pontillo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Her research activities are in software engineering, particularly software testing, software quality, and software maintenance and evolution. Her research interests also include the development of novel software engineering for artificial intelligence tools and techniques.
Joanna Kisaakye
University of Antwerp
Joanna Kisaakye is a PhD student at the University of Antwerp. She is part of the Lab on Reengineering (LORE) under the ANSYMO research group.
Her research interests centre around software evolution and software quality.
Tolgahan Bardakci
University of Antwerp
Tolgahan Bardakci is a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp. His main interest is software testing. He focuses on test automation, back-end systems, REST APIs, and test amplification. Before his academic career, he was a senior software test engineer at an international company. He has over five years of hands-on experience in software testing across various systems, including banking, e-commerce, and smart factory applications. He worked on different types of software, such as web and mobile applications. Additionally, he assisted security engineers in understanding systems better, collaborated with them in security testing, and eventually contributed to application security.
Currently, he focuses on applying test amplification techniques for REST APIs.
