Quentin De Coninck

Dr. Quentin De Coninck is an Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium. Previously, he was a FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLouvain, focusing on network protocols. His research interests include multipath transport protocols, cybersecurity implications of IT/OT convergence, system architecture design, and virtualization techniques. De Coninck holds a PhD from UCLouvain (2020), titled Flexible Multipath Transport Protocols, and has contributed to influential projects like Core QUIC and xBGP. He has published extensively on QUIC extensions, BGP innovation frameworks, and multipath protocol evaluation, with notable work presented at SIGCOMM, NSDI, and ACM CoNEXT. His academic activities include organizing tutorials on multipath protocols and serving on conference program committees.

He has collaborated with institutions like ETH Zurich and Apple Inc., and his work has been recognized with awards such as the IETF 112 Applied Research Networking Prize. De Coninck’s open-source contributions include implementations of multipath QUIC and tools like minitopo for network experimentation. His teaching activities cover computer networking principles and cybersecurity topics, with materials available through Open Educational Resources.