Bjorn De Sutter

Bjorn De Sutter is a Full Professor in the Computer Systems Lab within the Department of Electronics and Information Systems at Ghent University, Belgium. His research spans software protection/security (obfuscation, side channels, diversity) and code generation for accelerators like GPUs.

Research interests include:

• Software protection mechanisms against reverse engineering and attacks
• Compiler techniques for heterogeneous architectures
• Multi-variant execution and software diversity
• Cryptographic key extraction and protection modeling

Publications focus on software security (67%), systems (20%), and compilers (13%), with recent work in protection evaluation methodologies, GPU compilation, and diversified execution. Key trends include empirical security validation and adaptive protection techniques.

Awards and honors:

• Barco Award for Graduation Dissertations (1998)
• HiPEAC Technology Transfer Awards (2013, 2018)
• ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper & Best Paper Award at ICPC 2017

Advises 4 PhD students and 6 Master's candidates. Secured €2M+ funding from:

• EU FP7 (ASPIRE coordinator)
• FWO projects on software protection/compilers
• VLAIO industrial fellowships

Leads the Computer Systems Lab focusing on secure compilation and architecture-aware optimization.