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Academic and professional service — steering committees, conference chairing and organizing, program committees, and PhD examination duties.
Steering Committees
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SCAM (IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation) Steering Committee member, 3rd term (2025–)
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GPCE (ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences) Steering Committee Chair (since 2023)
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GPCE (ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences) Steering Committee member (2021–2026)
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SCAM (IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation) Steering Committee member, 2nd term (2020–2023)
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SCAM (IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation) Steering Committee member, 1st term (2017–2020)
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SATToSE (Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution) Steering Committee member (2012–2019)
Chairing and Organizing
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Organizing Co-Chair of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Security Testing Systems(SECUTE 2026), co-located with ASE 2026
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Program Co-Chair of the 33rd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2025)
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Journal First Co-Chair of the 32rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025)
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General Chair of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2024)
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Co-Chair of the 3rd Summer School on Security Testing and Verification (ST&V 2024)
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Organizing Co-Chair of the 1st Workshop on Security Testing for Complex Software Systems(SECUTE 2024), co-located with EASE 2024
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Organizing Co-Chair of the 1st Software Lifecycle Management for Knowledge Graphs Workshop (SOFLIM4KG), co-located with ISWC 2024
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Co-Chair of the Journal-First Track of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024, Journal-First Track)
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General Co-Chair of the 22nd GPCE conference (GPCE23), with Bernhard Rumpe
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Co-Chair of the 2nd Summer School on Security Testing and Verification
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Program Co-Chair of the Tool Demo track of the 39th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME23)
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Program Co-Chair of the Early Research Achievements track of the 31st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC23)
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Workshops Co-Chair of ECOOP 2022
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Co-Organiser of the 2022 Program Analysis for WebAssembly (PAW) workshop
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Co-Chair of the 1st Summer School on Security Testing and Verification
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Program Chair of the 20th GPCE conference (GPCE2021)
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Co-Chair of the ACM student Research Competition at the 2020 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming20)
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Co-organizer of the 3rd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web (ProWeb19)
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Co-Chair of the Posters track of the 2019 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming19)
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Program Co-Chair of the Tool Demonstrations Track of the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME18)
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Co-organizer of the 2nd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web (ProWeb18)
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Program Co-Chair of the SPLASH 2017 doctoral symposium (SPLASH17)
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Program Co-Chair of the 17th Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM17)
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Co-organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web (ProWeb17)
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Workshops Co-chair SANER16 (2016)
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Publications Chair of the 16th SCAM conference (SCAM16)
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Program Co-chair of WCRE-CSMR14 Early Research Achievements track (2014)
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PC Chair of SATToSE12
Program Committee Membership
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PC member of the 27th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2026)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 33rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 23rd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 34th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2026)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2026)
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PC member of the Journal First Track of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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PC member of the Research Track of the 41st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2025)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 32rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2025)
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PC member of the 24th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2025)
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PC member of the 23rd International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2024)
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PC member of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2024)
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PC member of the Emerging Researchers’ Forum (ERF) at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt (ERF at TechDebt 2024)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 31st International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2024)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 40th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024)
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PC member of the Research track of the 2024 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming24)
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PC member of the 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024)
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PC member of the 25th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI24)
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PC member of the 22nd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2023)
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PC member of the 15th Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATToSE23)
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PC member of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Journal-First Track) (ASE23 Journal-First)
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PC member of the 39th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME23)
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PC member of the 22nd GPCE conference (GPCE23)
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PC member of the 30th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER23)
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PC member of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR23)
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PC member of the 22nd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL23)
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PC member of the 21th GPCE conference (GPCE2022)
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PC member of the 29th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER22)
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PC member of the 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC22)
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PC member of the Research track 2022 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming22)
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PC member of the Posters track at the 2022 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming22)
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PC member of the 20th International Conference on Software and System Reuse (ICSR22)
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PC member of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME22)
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Member of the Academic Panel for the ECOOP 2022 Doctoral Symposium
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PC member of the 36th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE21)
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PC member of the 37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME21)
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PC member of the 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR21)
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PC member of the 4th International Workshop on Software Health in Projects, Ecosystems and Communities (SoHEAL21) (2021)
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PC member of the 12th A-TEST workshop (A-TEST 2021)
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Member of the ICPC 2021 Most Influential Paper Award Selection Committee
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PC member of the 35th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE20)
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PC member of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR20)
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PC member of the 28th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC20)
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PC member of the 20th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM20)
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PC member of the 2020 International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming20)
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PC member of the 19th International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR20)
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PC member of the 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR19)
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PC member of the 34th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE19)
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PC member of the Tools track of the 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC19)
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PC member of the 19th Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM19)
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PC member of the 1st workshop on Languages and Tools for Next Generation Testing (LANGETI19)
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PC member of the Posters track of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE19)
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PC member of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Infrastructure and Configuration Code (SEConfig)
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PC member of the Tool Demonstrations Track of the 2018 of the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC18)
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PC member of the Research Track of the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME18)
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PC member of the 11th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC18) (2018)
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PC member of the 18th Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM18)
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PC member of the 18th SCAM conference (SCAM18), Engineering Papers Track
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PC member of the 10th International Workshop on Context-oriented Programming (COP18)
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Judge for the ACM student Research Competition at the Programming 2018 conference
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PC member of the 33nd ICSME conference (ICSME17)
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PC member of the 10th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC17) (2017)
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PC member of the 4th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2016) (2017)
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PC member of the 10th Seminar Series on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATTOSE17)
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PC member of the 16th BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution Ssymposium (BENEVOL17)
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PC member of the 32nd ICSME conference (ICSME16)
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PC member of the 16th SCAM conference, Engineering Track (SCAM16)
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PC member of the 9th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC16) (2016)
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PC member of the 8th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP16)
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PC member of the NIER and Tools track of VISSOFT16 (2016)
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PC member of the SPLASH 2016 Doctoral Symposium
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PC member of the NIER and Tools track of VISSOFT15 (2015)
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PC member of the 15th SCAM Tool Demo Track (SCAM15)
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PC member of the 8th Transformation Tool Contest (TTC15) (2015)
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PC member of the 7th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP15)
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PC member of ICSMe15 Early Research Achievements track (2015)
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Member of the scientific committee of the 2015 GTSSE Summer School
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PC member of ICPC14
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PC member of ICSMe14 Early Research Achievements track (2014)
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PC member of ICSMe14 Tool Demo track (2014)
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PC member of WCRE13 Research Tool Demonstration track
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PC member of UCAmI13
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PC member of WASDeTT13
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PC member of UCAmI12
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PC member of MidSens12
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PC member of Smalltalks12 (2012)
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PC member of MidSens11
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PC member of Smalltalks11 (2011)
PhD Examination Committees
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Member PhD Jury Dairo de Ruck (KU Leuven, Belgium) (2026)
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External examiner PhD Viva Seham Alharbi (York University, United Kingdom) (2025)
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Member PhD Jury Stefan Ramson (Universität Potsdam, Germany) (2025)
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Member PhD Jury Gabriel Darbord (Université de Lille, France) (2025)
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President PhD Jury Raphaël Avalos Martinez de Escobar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium) (2025)
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Member PhD Jury Stef Verreydt (KU Leuven, Belgium) (2025)
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Member PhD Jury (Opponent) of Idriss Riouak (Lund University, Sweden) (2024)
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Member PhD Jury of Xavier Chesterman (Artificial Intelligence Lab, VUB - Belgium) (2024)
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Member PhD Guidance Committee of Julien Liénard (UCLouvain, Belgium) (2024)
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Member PhD Jury of Mehdi Keshani (TUDelft, Netherlands) (2024)
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Member PhD Jury of Giovanni Rosa (University of Molise, Italy) (2024)
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Member PhD Jury of Florent Moriconi (EURECOM, SophiaTech, France) (2024)
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Member PhD Jury of Carlos Santiago Galindo Jiménez (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) (2024)
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Member PhD Jury of Stefano Dalla Palma (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) (2023)
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Member PhD Jury of Águeda Gómez Cambronero (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) (2023)
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Member PhD Jury of Sam Van Den Vonder (Software Languages Lab (SOFT), VUB) (2022)
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Member PhD Jury of Nicolas Harrand (Software Languages Lab, KTH Royal Institute of Sweden, Stockholm) (2022)
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Member PhD Jury of Oleksandr Zaitsev (University of Lille, France) (2022)
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Member PhD Jury of Sofia Papadimitriou (Machine Learning Group,ULB + Artificial Intelligence Lab, VUB) (2020)
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Member PhD Jury of Thierry Renaux (Software Languages Lab (SOFT), VUB) (2019)
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Member PhD Jury of Güner Orhan (University of Twente) (2019)
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Member PhD Jury of Christoffer Quist Adamsen ( Aarhus University) (2018)
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Member PhD Jury of Jesse Zaman (Software Languages Lab (SOFT), VUB) (2018)
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Member PhD Jury of Paul Van Eecke (Artificial Intelligence Lab, VUB) (2018)
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Member PhD Jury of Tetiana Yarygina (University of Bergen) (2018)
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Member Doctoral Monitoring Committee of Lucas Serrano (Sorbonne University) (2018)
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Member PhD Jury of Gustavo Santo (Université de Lille) (2017)
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Member PhD Jury of Gabriel Radanne (Université Paris-Diderot) (2017)
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Member of PhD Jury Kristof Van Moffaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)) (2016)
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Member of PhD Jury Kevin Van Vaerenbergh (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)) (2016)
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Member of PhD Jury Willem De Groef (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) (2016)
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Member of PhD Jury Boris Spasojević (University of Bern) (2016)
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Member of PhD Jury Dries Harnie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)) (2015)
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PhD Jury Member Niels Jonckheere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)) (2013)
Academic Service
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Member, VLIR entrance-exam committee (“ijkingstoets”) for Informatics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence (since 2020), responsible for compiling the test
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Advisor to NARIC-Vlaanderen on the equivalence of foreign Computer Science diplomas (since 2020)
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VUB representative, Belgian Cybersecurity Coalition, Enterprise Security Architecture working group (since 2019)
Institutional Service
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Chair, Faculty Student Affairs Committee (Commissie Studentenzaken) (since 2023)
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Chair, programme board (opleidingsraad), Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (since 2019)
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Member, VUB Innovation and Valorization Council (since 2025)
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Effective member, Faculty Council (Faculteitsraad), Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences (since 2023; alternate member since 2013)
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Member, Faculty Bureau (Faculteitsbureau) (since 2023)
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Member, VUB “Dual Technologies, Military Research and Misuse” Ethics Committee (ECDMM) (since 2023)
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Member, central VUB Committee on Inclusive Education (Commissie Inclusief Onderwijs) (2022–2023)
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Member, central VUB Entry Tests Committee (Commissie Starttoetsen) (2022–2024)
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Member, programme board (opleidingsraad), Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence (since 2022)
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Member, Faculty PR Committee (Commissie PR), representing the Computer Science department (2018–2025)
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Responsible for the Computer Science department’s recruitment activities and annual revision of programme brochures and website texts (2018–2025)
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Member (deputy chair since 2021), examination committee, Master in Engineering: Computer Science / Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science (since 2015)
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Member (deputy chair since 2021), examination committee, Master of Science in Applied Informatics (since 2016, except 2020–2021)
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Member, joint programme board (opleidingsraad), Master in Engineering: Computer Science / Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science / Master of Science in Applied Informatics (since 2016)
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Member (deputy chair since 2021), examination committee, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (since 2014)