Publications
Journals · Conferences · Workshops · Theses
Recent Papers
Robbe De Greef, Théo Engels, Felix Van den Broucke, Ken Hasselmann, Antonio Paolillo. Lifting the Preprocessor with Oxidize: Structure-Preserving C-to-Rust Translation. EuroSys 2027, Rabat, Morocco, April 2027.
PDF (to appear)LLVM meetup poster
Aleksander Burkiewicz, Hoang-Long Cao, Sandra Salloum, Milan Amighi, Nima Roshandel, Dylan Sisavath, Yuwen Shen, Hamed Firouzipouyaei, Constantin Scholz, Antonio Paolillo, Bram Vanderborght. Is augmented reality ready for the warehouse? A comparative study of user acceptance in human–robot collaborative order fulfillment. Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 19, no. 4, article 63, July 2026.
Charles Lohest, Esteban Aguililla Klein, Remi Gunsett, Eric Viseur, Ken Hasselmann, Antonio Paolillo. Automated Language-Agnostic Multi-Metric Security Evaluation for Transpilation Workflows. ACNS-ISC 2026, co-located with ACNS 2026, Stony Brook, New York, USA, June 2026.
Théo Engels, Antonio Paolillo, Ken Hasselmann. tf2_rs: Bringing tf2 to Rust. 8th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE'26), co-located with ICRA 2026, Vienna, Austria, June 2026.
Antonio Paolillo, Mats Van Molle, Ken Hasselmann. benchkit: A Declarative Framework for Composable Performance Evaluation of System Software. ICPE 2026, Florence, Italy, May 2026. SPEC RG Recognised Tool
Journal Publications
Aleksander Burkiewicz, Hoang-Long Cao, Sandra Salloum, Milan Amighi, Nima Roshandel, Dylan Sisavath, Yuwen Shen, Hamed Firouzipouyaei, Constantin Scholz, Antonio Paolillo, Bram Vanderborght. Is augmented reality ready for the warehouse? A comparative study of user acceptance in human–robot collaborative order fulfillment. Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 19, no. 4, article 63, July 2026.
Antonio Paolillo. pythainer: composable and reusable Docker builders and runners for reproducible research. JOSS, vol. 11, no. 117, January 2026.
Nima Roshandel, Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Milan Amighi, Hamed Firouzipouyaei, Aleksander Burkiewicz, Sébastien Menet, Felipe Ballen-Moreno, Dylan Warawout Sisavath, Emil Imrith, Antonio Paolillo, Jan Genoe, Bram Vanderborght. mmPrivPose3D: A RaDAR-Based Approach to Privacy-Compliant Pose Estimation and Gesture Command Recognition in Human–Robot Collaboration. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 25, no. 15, August 2025.
Nima Roshandel, Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Milan Amighi, Hamed Firouzipouyaei, Aleksander Burkiewicz, Sébastien Menet, Felipe Ballen-Moreno, Dylan Warawout Sisavath, Emil Imrith, Antonio Paolillo, Jan Genoe, Bram Vanderborght. mmPrivPose3D: A dataset for pose estimation and gesture command recognition in human-robot collaboration using FMCW 60GHz RaDAR. Data in Brief, vol. 111316, January 2025.
Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Emil Imrith, Nima Roshandel, Hamed Firouzipouyaei, Aleksander Burkiewicz, Milan Amighi, Sébastien Menet, Dylan Warawout Sisavath, Antonio Paolillo, Xavier Rottenberg, Peter Gerets, David Cheyns, Marcus Dahlem, Ilja Ocket, Jan Genoe, Kathleen Philips, Ben Stoffelen, Jeroen van den Bosch, Steven Latre, Bram Vanderborght. Sensor-Enabled Safety Systems for Human-Robot Collaboration: A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 65–88, January 2025.
Conference Publications
Robbe De Greef, Théo Engels, Felix Van den Broucke, Ken Hasselmann, Antonio Paolillo. Lifting the Preprocessor with Oxidize: Structure-Preserving C-to-Rust Translation. EuroSys 2027, Rabat, Morocco, April 2027.
PDF (to appear)LLVM meetup poster
Antonio Paolillo, Mats Van Molle, Ken Hasselmann. benchkit: A Declarative Framework for Composable Performance Evaluation of System Software. ICPE 2026, Florence, Italy, May 2026. SPEC RG Recognised Tool
Aaron Bogaert, Antonio Paolillo. Is Mojo Ready for Real-Time? A Language Evaluation for Time-Sensitive System Software. RTNS 2025, Pisa, Italy, November 2025.
Robbe De Greef, Attilio Discepoli, Esteban Aguililla Klein, Théo Engels, Ken Hasselmann, Antonio Paolillo. Towards Macro-Aware C-to-Rust Transpilation (WIP). LCTES 2025, co-located with PLDI 2025, Seoul, South Korea, June 2025.
Simon Picard, Antonio Paolillo, Gilles Geeraerts, Joël Goossens. Exact schedulability test for sporadic mixed-criticality real-time systems using antichains and oracles. RTNS 2024, Porto, Portugal, November 2024.
Rafael Chehab, Antonio Paolillo, Diogo Behrens, Ming Fu, Hermann Härtig, Haibo Chen. CLoF: A Compositional Lock Framework for Multi-level NUMA Systems. SOSP 2021, Virtual, October 2021.
Jonas Oberhauser, Lilith Oberhauser, Antonio Paolillo, Diogo Behrens, Ming Fu, Viktor Vafeiadis. Verifying and Optimizing the HMCS Lock for Arm Servers. NETYS 2021, Virtual, May 2021.
Jonas Oberhauser, Rafael Lourenco de Lima Chehab, Diogo Behrens, Ming Fu, Antonio Paolillo, Lilith Oberhauser, Koustubha Bhat, Yuzhong Wen, Haibo Chen, Jaeho Kim, Viktor Vafeiadis. VSync: Push-Button Verification and Optimization for Synchronization Primitives on Weak Memory Models. ASPLOS 2021, Virtual, April 2021. Distinguished Paper Award
Joël Goossens, Antonio Paolillo, Xavier Poczekajlo, Paul Rodriguez. ACCEPTOR: a model and a protocol for real-time multi-mode applications on reconfigurable heterogeneous platforms. RTNS 2019, Toulouse, France, November 2019.
Juan M Rivas, Joël Goossens, Xavier Poczekajlo, Antonio Paolillo. Implementation of Memory Centric Scheduling for COTS Multi-Core Real-Time Systems. ECRTS 2019, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2019.
Ahmad Sadek, Ananya Muddukrishna, Lester Kalms, Asbjørn Djupdal, Ariel Podlubne, Antonio Paolillo, Diana Goehringer, Magnus Jahre. Supporting Utilities for Heterogeneous Embedded Image Processing Systems (STHEM): An Overview. ARC 2018, Santorini, Greece, May 2018.
Antonio Paolillo, Paul Rodriguez, Nikita Veshchikov, Joël Goossens, Ben Rodriguez. Quantifying Energy Consumption for Practical Fork-Join Parallelism on an Embedded Real-Time Operating System. RTNS 2016, Brest, France, October 2016.
Tobias Kalb, Lester Kalms, Diana Göhringer, Ananya Muddukrishna, Magnus Jahre, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Carl Ehrenstråhle, Magnus Peterson, Antonio Paolillo, Christian Lemer, Ben Rodriguez, Carlota Pons, Fabien Marty, Boitumelo Ruf, Igor Tchouchenkov, Flemming Christensen, Guillaume Bernard, François Duhem, Philippe Millet. TULIPP: Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms. SAMOS XVI, Samos, Greece, July 2016.
Workshops
Charles Lohest, Esteban Aguililla Klein, Remi Gunsett, Eric Viseur, Ken Hasselmann, Antonio Paolillo. Automated Language-Agnostic Multi-Metric Security Evaluation for Transpilation Workflows. ACNS-ISC 2026, co-located with ACNS 2026, Stony Brook, New York, USA, June 2026.
Théo Engels, Antonio Paolillo, Ken Hasselmann. tf2_rs: Bringing tf2 to Rust. 8th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE'26), co-located with ICRA 2026, Vienna, Austria, June 2026.
Attilio Discepoli, Mathias Louis Huygen, Antonio Paolillo. Compute Kernels as Moldable Tasks: Towards Real-Time Gang Scheduling in GPUs. ECRTS, OSPERT, Brussels, Belgium, July 2025.
Yuwen Shen, Jorrit Vander Mynsbrugge, Nima Roshandel, Robin Bouchez, Hamed FirouziPouyaei, Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Bram Vanderborght, Wouter Joosen, Antonio Paolillo. SentryRT-1: A Case Study in Evaluating Real-Time Linux for Safety-Critical Robotic Perception. ECRTS, OSPERT, Brussels, Belgium, July 2025.
Théo Engels, Attilio Discepoli, Robbe De Greef, Esteban Aguililla Klein, Francesco D’Agostino, Remi Gunsett, Jonathan Pisane, Ken Hasselmann, Antonio Paolillo. FORCES: An Incremental Transpiler from C/C++ to Rust for Robust and Secure Robotics Systems. ICRA 2025 Workshop on Rust for Robotics (R4R), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 2025.
Wannes Dewit, Antonio Paolillo, Joël Goossens. A Preliminary Assessment of the real-time capabilities of Real-Time Linux on Raspberry Pi 5. ECRTS, OSPERT, Lille, France, July 2024.
Antonio Paolillo, Paul Rodriguez, Vladimir Svoboda, Olivier Desenfans, Joël Goossens, Ben Rodriguez, Sylvain Girbal, Madeleine Faugère, Philippe Bonnot. Porting a safety-critical industrial application on a mixed-criticality enabled real-time operating system. WMC @ RTSS, Brussels, Belgium, December 2017.
Martin Cornil, Antonio Paolillo, Joël Goossens, Ben Rodriguez. Research and implementation challenges of RTOS support for heterogeneous computing platforms. HARTS-ULB, Brussels, Belgium, May 2017.
Antonio Paolillo, Olivier Desenfans, Vladimir Svoboda, Joël Goossens, Ben Rodriguez. A New Configurable and Parallel Embedded Real-time Micro-Kernel for Multi-core platforms. ECRTS, OSPERT, Lund, Sweden, July 2015.
Olivier Desenfans, Antonio Paolillo, Vladimir Svoboda, Ben Rodriguez, Joël Goossens, Dragomir Milojevic. Design and implementation of a multi-core embedded real-time operating system kernel. ACTRISS OPRTC-ULB, Brussels, Belgium, April 2014.
Book Chapter
Tobias Kalb, Lester Kalms, Diana Göhringer, Carlota Pons, Ananya Muddukrishna, Magnus Jahre, Boitumelo Ruf, Tobias Schuchert, Igor Tchouchenkov, Carl Ehrenstråhle, Magnus Peterson, Flemming Christensen, Antonio Paolillo, Ben Rodriguez, Philippe Millet. Developing Low-Power Image Processing Applications with the TULIPP Reference Platform Instance. In: Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers. Springer, pp. 181–197, 2019.
Ph.D. Thesis
Technical Notes
Antonio Paolillo, Hernán Ponce-de-León, Thomas Haas, Diogo Behrens, Rafael Chehab, Ming Fu, Roland Meyer. Verifying and Optimizing Compact NUMA-Aware Locks on Weak Memory Models. Technical note, July 2022.
Posters
Mats Van Molle, Antonio Paolillo. benchkit makes benchmarking easy & trustworthy. DARE summer school, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2024.
Master's Thesis
Antonio Paolillo. Multicriteria performance prediction applied to embedded system design. Université Libre de Bruxelles, June 2011.