Bjorn De Sutter is a Professor in the new Computer Systems Lab (website coming soon I hope) in the Electronics and Information Systems Department of Ghent University. He is also a member of the Embedded Systems Group of the Department of Electronics and Informatics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

His areas of interest include Coarse-grained reconfigurable computing: Compilation techniques and design space exploration, Whole-Program Optimization: Performance and Code Size, and Software Protection: software diversity, obfuscation, side-channels. His research at Ghent University has been funded by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders. In these areas, he published over 40 papers in international journals and conferences. He also participated in more than 10 program committees in these research areas. For his Master thesis (in collaboration with Mark Christiaens) on multimedia architectures, he won the yearly Barco Award for Graduation Dissertations 1998, awarded by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders.

From November 2002 to July 2003, he visited IBM T.J. Watson Research Center to collaborate with Frank Tip on whole-program optimization of Java programs by means of automated container class optimization and refactoring. This work (and the work building on it) was recognized as a "Research Accomplishment" at IBM Research (in the category "Fundamental Contributions to Science and Technology"). From 2005 to 2007, Bjorn worked in the compiler and computer architecture team at IMEC. From late 2006 on, he lead the team that developed the ADRES coarse-grain dynamically reconfigurable array architecture and the corresponding ANSI-C compiler.

[DBLP] [H-index=15] [Selected Publications] [All Publications]

Projects

• Software Protection
  
  
  Software Diversity
  • [ICISC-08,DRM-04,ICISC-04]
    
  Software Version Matching
  • [ICSM-07]
    
  Software Obfuscation and Deobfuscation
  • [WQP-07,DRM-05,WISA-05]
  Compiler-Based Mitigations against Side Channel Attacks
  • [S&P-09]
    
  
  
• Whole-Program Compiler Techniques & Binary Rewriting
  
  
  Interprocedural Analysis: Dominators & Liveness
  • [TOPLAS-07,JSA-06]
    
  Operating System Specialization & Compaction
  • [TECS-07,LCTES-05]
    
  Program Compaction
  • [TECS-07b,LCTES-04,TOPLAS-05,CACM-03,LCTES-03,OOPSLA-02,LCTES-01,TOPLAS-00]
    
  Binary Program Editing & Instrumentation
  • [PASTE-05,PASTE-04]
    
  Java Refactoring and Optimization
  • [ECOOP-04]
    
  VLIW code generation
  • [CASES-07]
    
  
  
• Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
  
  
  Compiler Techniques for CGRAs
  • [LCTES-08]
    
  Software-Defined Radio Processing
  • [MICRO-08,DATE-08]
    
  Multimedia Accelerators
  • [JSPS-08,HiPEAC-08,SPIE-07]
    
  
  
• Medical Imaging (Past Research)
  
  
  Radiological Path Computations
  • [JSA-99,ParComp-99]