Team

SPELLS² · PhD students

Current Team

Name	Position	Period	Topic
Yuwen Shen	PhD student (imec / KU Leuven)	Dec 2024 – ongoing	Full software stack for predictability in robotics: real-time Linux for safety-critical perception, kernel scheduling for multithreaded real-time applications, characterisation of depth-sensing cameras
Robbe De Greef	PhD student	Oct 2025 – ongoing	Structured C-to-Rust translation (Oxidize) with macro preservation
Mats Van Molle	PhD student	Oct 2025 – ongoing	Performance evaluation and low-power operating systems; asymmetric multicore and NUMA
Esteban Aguililla Klein	PhD student	Oct 2025 – ongoing	Security aspects of transpilation; eBPF for the kernel and its research landscape
Theo De Geest	PhD student	from Oct 2026	Time-proportional speedup stacks

Interested in joining? See Open Positions.