Contact: Jonas Maebe Universiteit Gent Vakgroep ELIS Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 9000 Gent Belgium Tel: +32-9-2643367 Email: Jonas.Maebe@elis.UGent.be

Research

After my graduation in June 2007, I joined the Diablo team as a post-doctoral researcher. Diablo is a powerful multi-target link time binary rewriting and optimization framework. I am also coordinating the HiPEAC2 cluster on Binary translation and virtualisation.

My PhD research itself focussed on dynamic instrumentation of computer programs at the machine code level, in particular applications of said instrumentation and specification languages. My supervisor was Professor Koen De Bosschere.

My primary research vehicle was Diota, which stands for Dynamic Instrumentation, Optimization and Transformations of Applications. This generic instrumentation framework runs on the Linux/x86 platform and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The version on the website is unfortunately outdated, but I am working on putting the finishing touches on the 1.0 release. Feel free to contact me if you want a tarball with the latest sources and documentation.

Publications

You can find an overview of my publications here.

Other interests

• I am a lead developer of the Free Pascal Compiler. My main responsibilities are the PowerPC code generator and Darwin/Mac OS X support.
• I am a member of the privacy workgroup of the Liga voor de Mensenrechten. My main topic of interest is data retention legislation.
• For about 3.5 years (June 2003 - December 2007), I have been an active member of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which coordinates most of the opposition to the codification of software patents in Europe, and sometimes also against other misguided "information sphere" initiatives. For me personally, it all started with a letter I sent to several Members of the European Parliament, and a lot can be found by browsing this directory.
• Reading, in particular fantasy and science fiction.
• I recently started a blog. I'm not sure whether I'll post regularly on it though.

Interesting links

• A nice introductory animation about software patents
• "An Introduction to Council Decision Making" (a 15 minute video summary which I made of the EU Council meeting where they pushed through the software patents directive in first reading)
• Belgian/Flemish FFII website (also known as softwarepatenten.be)