Projects | Software Languages Lab (SOFT), VUB

SOFT’s externally funded project portfolio ranges from theoretical projects and fellowships of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), through strategic basic research (SBO), Innoviris, and defence-related research, to applied VLAIO R&D, ICON, and COOCK+ projects, and contract research with industrial partners.

The projects below are split into ongoing and completed projects. A complete overview of the lab’s projects is available on the VUB research portal.

Ongoing projects

DART

Practical guidelines, methods, and reference architectures for cyber detection and incident response in Flemish SMEs and non-profit organisations.

from 2026

VLAIO TETRA

CodeGuard

Helping Flemish software companies adopt AI code assistants safely, with mitigations for the security risks of AI-generated code.

2026–2029

VLAIO COOCK+

PINT

Taking PrintTalk, a programming language for designing 3D-printable objects, towards industrial use.

from 2026

IOF Proof of Concept

SODISA

Tools, execution layers, and consistency models for developing safer and more scalable decentralised applications.

2025–2029

FWO SBO (Strategic Basic Research Flanders)

BUGATTI

Making security testing tools and automation accessible for IoT and embedded system development.

2025–2028

VLAIO COOCK+

Speedup Stacks

Time-proportional bottleneck analysis that explains why multithreaded applications do not scale on multicore systems.

2025–2028

FWO Senior Research Project

FORCES

Incremental, automated migration of legacy C/C++ code in defence robotic systems to Rust.

2024–2029

Belgian Defence DEFRA programme

Multifaceted Performance

Programming tools, abstractions, and operating systems for embedded software with conflicting performance goals.

from 2024

VUB Research Council (BOF)

CRPF

A Flanders-wide cybersecurity research programme, in which SOFT works on application security testing and secure low-level software.

2024–2028

Programme Funding EWI

EVEREST

A high-level language for replicated state whose constructs are verified automatically.

2024–2027

FWO Research Project

CRACY

Guiding European companies towards compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act.