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 VUB, as well as posters research presentations by various INFORTECH members. The programme schedule is as follows:

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 optimize spinlock 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 the integration of VSync into various Huawei products. Building on this, Antonio co-created the Composable Lock Framework, enhancing lock scalability in many-core NUMA systems.  Besides spinlocks, he co-developed a new scheduler leveraging Performance Monitoring Units for workload-aware scheduling. At the VUB, Antonio is now merging his expertise in performance evaluation and in real-time systems with broader system software research. He 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 delves 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.

• 10:25 Thomas BALDASSARRE (ISIA Lab, FPMS): Expressions for Human-Agent Interactions and Extended Reality Applications
• 10:30 Islam HENTOUS (ILIA Lab, FPMS): Adversarial Assessment of IDS Frameworks in IoMT: A Security Analysis of Real-World Attack Vectors
• 10:35 Youness HOURRI (Software Engineering Lab, FS): A Dataset of Contributor Activities in the NumFocus Open-Source Software Community
• 10:40 Zainab OUARDIRHI (ILIA Lab, FPMS): Occlusion-Aware Object Detection for  Enhanced 2D/3D Vision Systems

10:45 Coffee break 

11:10 Technical session 1 – chair: Quentin De Coninck

• Tanguy VANSNICK (ILIA Lab, FPMS): Enhancing Privacy and Security in Federated Learning with Advanced Cryptographics
• Bastien VANDERPLAETSE (MAIA Lab, FPMS): Emergent Communication in Multi-Agent Systems
• Mathis DELEHOUZÉE (ILIA Lab, FPMS): Personalized federated learning for medical time series analysis

• Cyprien GILLE (ISIA Lab, FPMS): Processing Medical Multivariate Sparse Irregular Time Series

12:30 Lunch break with sandwiches 

13:30 Technical session 2 – chair:  Alexandre Decan

• Guillaume CARDOEN (Software Engineering Lab, FS): Towards an Empirical Analysis of Code Cloning and Code Reuse in CI/CD Ecosystems
• Hassan ONSORI DELICHEH (Software Engineering Lab, FS): Understanding the automation and reuse practices of GitHub Actions workflow developers
• Aref TALEBZADEH BARDSIRI (Software Engineering Lab, FS): The Evolution of GitHub Actions Workflows: Analyzing Concepts, Size, and Complexity
• Mohamed BENKEDADRA (ILIA / ISIA, FPMS): Generative Artificial Intelligence for Data Augmentation

15:00 coffee break 

15:15 Technical session 3 – chair:  Bruno Quoitin

• Otmane AMEL (ILIA Lab, FPMS): A Journey From Transformers to Multimodal LLM
• Benjamin OBERTHÜR (MARO, FPMS): Scheduling of Pick-and-Place Tasks in Shared Workspaces Using Trajectory-Free Approximation Method
• Pierre VANDENHOVE (Theoretical Computer Sciences Lab, FS): Revelations: A Decidable Class of POMDPs with Omega-Regular Objectives
• Moad HANI (ILIA Lab, FPMS): Optimization-Driven Clustering for Personalized Stroke Recovery Trajectories: A Multi-Algorithm Approach

17:00 Drink