Coen De Roover

Coen De Roover is a Professor at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) since October 2015, where he leads the Code Analysis and ManiPulation (CAMP) subgroup. His research focuses on program analysis design and its applications to software quality, including soft verification of contracts, incremental abstract interpretation, vulnerability detection in infrastructure code, and mining change patterns in commits.

• Key Research Areas: static analysis, dynamic analysis, mining software repositories, software engineering tools, security, and empirical studies.
• Conference Roles: Organizing Committee Chair for ECOOP Academy (2026), Steering Committee Member for GPCE, Program Committee Member for ICFP, SANER, and VMCAI, and Session Chair for multiple research tracks.
• Notable Contributions: Publications on WebAssembly analysis, Ansible security, concolic testing, and abstract interpretation frameworks.

He also serves as Programme Director for the Bachelor in Computer Science at VUB since 2019-2020.