INFORTECH Day 2025

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INFORTECH Day 2025 takes place on Friday, May 23rd, 2025 in room Pauling at the ground floor of the Mendeleiev building, at the Sciences campus of UMONS (Avenue Maistriau 15, 7000 Mons). The programme features an invited keynote by professor Antonio Paolillo from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), as well as posters research presentations by various INFORTECH members.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

9:00 Welcome 

 9:15 Opening words – Président d’Infortech, Tom MENS 

 9:25 Keynote – Antonio PAOLILLO  (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)  “A real-time research journey from kernels to robotics” 

Abstract: Antonio is a recently appointed Assistant Professor in Software Technology at VUB. He will outline his journey in real-time and low-level software systems research, beginning with his Ph.D. obtained at ULB in 2018. There, he focused on developing power-aware parallel schedulers and real-time micro-kernels. At the Huawei Dresden Research Center, he concentrated on implementing, validating, and evaluating the performance of synchronization primitives. He contributed to the VSync project, aiming to verify and optimizespinlock implementations in system software.  VSync used a novel model-checking approach for lock validation and barrier placement, uncovering bugs in major codebases like DPDK & SeL4.  This led to an ASPLOS’21 distinguished paper award and the integration of VSync into various Huawei products. Building on this, Antonio co-created CLoF, the Composable Lock Framework, enhancing lock scalability in many-core NUMA systems, culminating in a SOSP’21 paper.  Besides spinlocks, he co-developed a new scheduler leveraging Performance Monitoring Units for workload-aware scheduling. Returning to academia at VUB, Antonio is now merging his expertise in performance evaluation and in real-time systems with broader system software research. His current work investigates evaluating and integrating heterogeneous systems, like GPUs and FPGAs, with real-time systems, and potentially extending previously developed synchronization primitives to these platforms. Additionally, he’s delving into real-time software for robotics, aspiring to create safe and efficient robotic systems 

10:25 Poster session – chair:  Saïd Mahmoudi

During this session, the following PhD students will give 5-minute lightning talks of their posters, that will be displayed in the back of the room during the entire day. Participants are invited to talk to the PhD students about their research during the coffee breaks and lunch breaks.

  • Thomas BALDASSARRE (ISIA Lab), Expressions for Human-Agent Interactions and Extended Reality Applications
  • Islam HENTOUS (ILIA Lab), Adversarial Assessment of IDS Frameworks in IoMT: A Security Analysis of Real-World Attack Vectors
  • Youness HOURRI (Software Engineering Lab), A Dataset of Contributor Activities in the NumFocus Open-Source Software Community

10:40 Coffee break 

11:00 Technical session 1 – chair: Bruno Quoitin

  • presentation 1
  • presentation 2
  • presentation 3
  • presentation 4
  • presentation 5

12:00 Lunch break with sandwiches 

13:00 Technical session 2 – chair:  

  • presentation 6
  • presentation 7
  • presentation 8
  • presentation 9

15:00 coffee break 

15:15 Technical session 3 – chair:  

  • presentation 10
  • presentation 11
  • presentation 12
  • presentation 13

 

17:00 Drink