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Researcher

Bjorn De Sutter

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Awards & Distinctions

129 Results

2026

Equality saturation for optimizing high-level Julia IR

Jules MerckxTim BesardBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION

Flexible performant tensor contractions on GPUs

Thomas FaingnaertWard VermeulenTim BesardBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Secure and efficient application monitoring and replication without kernel patches

Bert AbrathLennert FranssensBjorn De SutterBart Coppens

A1 Journal Article in COMPUTERS & SECURITY

2025

Availability, Reliability and Security : 20th International Conference, ARES 2025, Proceedings, Part I

Availability, Reliability and Security : 20th International Conference, ARES 2025, Proceedings, Part II

Availability, Reliability and Security : ARES 2025 EU Projects Symposium Workshops, Proceedings, Part I

Availability, Reliability and Security : ARES 2025 EU Projects Symposium Workshops, Proceedings, Part II

Availability, reliability and security : ARES 2025 international workshops, Ghent, Belgium, August 11–14, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

Availability, Reliability and Security : ARES 2025 International Workshops, Proceedings, Part II

Availability, Reliability and Security : ARES 2025 International Workshops, Proceedings, Part III

Availability, Reliability and Security : ARES 2025 International Workshops, Proceedings, Part IV

MVX-based mitigation of position-independent code reuse

Bert AbrathBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in COMPUTERS & SECURITY

Pseudonymity for personal data stores : pseudonymous webIDs and decentralized identifiers

Gertjan De MulderBen De Meester

reAnalyst : scalable annotation of reverse engineering activities☆

Tab ZhangClaire TaylorBart CoppensWaleed MebaneChristian CollbergBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE

2024

Evaluation methodologies in software protection research

Bjorn De SutterSebastian SchrittwieserBart CoppensPatrick Kochberger

A1 Journal Article in ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS

K-hunt++ : improved dynamic cryptographic key extraction

Thomas FaingnaertWillem Van IseghemBjorn De Sutter

Tools and models for software reverse engineering research

Thomas FaingnaertTab ZhangWillem Van IseghemGertjan EveraertBart CoppensChristian CollbergBjorn De Sutter

2023

Design, implementation, and automation of a risk management approach for man-at-the-End software protection

Cataldo BasileBjorn De SutterDaniele CanaveseLeonardo ReganoBart Coppens

A1 Journal Article in COMPUTERS & SECURITY

2022

ApkDiff : matching android app versions based on class structure

Robbe De GheinBert AbrathBjorn De SutterBart Coppens

Flexible performant GEMM kernels on GPUs

Thomas FaingnaertTim BesardBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Flexible software protection

Jens Van den BroeckBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in COMPUTERS & SECURITY

Productively accelerating positron emission tomography image reconstruction on graphics processing units with Julia

Michiel Van GendtTim BesardStefaan VandenbergheBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

Sharing is caring : secure and efficient shared memory support for MVEEs

Jonas VinckBert AbrathBart CoppensAlexios VoulimeneasBjorn De SutterStijn Volckaert

Stealthy and resilient code protection

Jens Van den BroeckBjorn De SutterBart Coppens

2021

Obfuscated integration of software protections

Jens Van den BroeckBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY

The paved path methodology : a human-centered approach to software security

Pieter De CremerBjorn De SutterMatias Madou

2020

Adaptive compiler strategies for mitigating timing side channel attacks

Jeroen Van CleemputBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING

Code renewability for native software protection

Bert AbrathBart CoppensJens Van den BroeckBrecht WyseurAlessandro CabuttoPaolo FalcarinBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PRIVACY AND SECURITY

Delta breakpad : diversified binary crash reporting

Bert AbrathBart CoppensMohit MishraJens Van den BroeckBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING

Effective and efficient Java‐type obfuscation

Christophe FoketKoen De BosschereBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in SOFTWARE - PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE

Resilient self-debugging software protection

Bert AbrathBart CoppensIlja NevolinBjorn De Sutter

Sensei : enforcing secure coding guidelines in the integrated development environment

Pieter De CremerNathan DesmetMatias MadouBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in SOFTWARE - PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE

2019

A meta-model for software protections and reverse engineering attacks

Cataldo BasileDaniele CanaveseLeonardo ReganoPaolo FalcarinBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE

Abstractions for programming graphics processors in high-level programming languages

Tim BesardBjorn De Sutter

Coarse-grained reconfigurable array architectures

Bjorn De SutterPraveen RaghavanAndy Lambrechts

Bookchapter in Handbook of signal processing systems

Effective extensible programming : unleashing Julia on GPUs

Tim BesardChristophe FoketBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Practical protections for native programs

Bert AbrathBjorn De SutterBart Coppens

Rapid software prototyping for heterogeneous and distributed platforms

Tim BesardValentin ChuravyAlan EdelmanBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE

Understanding the behaviour of hackers while performing attack tasks in a professional setting and in a public challenge

Mariano CeccatoPaolo TonellaCataldo BasilePaolo FalcarinMarco TorchianoBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

2018

Dynamic automatic differentiation of GPU broadcast kernels

Jarrett RevelsTim BesardValentin ChuravyBjorn De SutterAlan Edelman

Multi-variant execution environments

Bart CoppensBjorn De SutterStijn Volckaert

Bookchapter in The continuing arms race : code-reuse attacks and defenses

2017

How professional hackers understand protected code while performing attack tasks

M. CeccatoP. TonellaC. BasileBart CoppensBjorn De SutterP. FalcarinM. Torchiano

SCM : Secure Code Memory Architecture

Ruan de ClercqRonald De KeulenaerPieter MaeneBart PreneelBjorn De SutterIngrid Verbauwhede

Taming parallelism in a multi-variant execution environment

Stijn VolckaertBart CoppensBjorn De SutterKoen De BosscherePer LarsenMichael Franz

2016

2nd International Workshop on Software Protection : SPRO 2016

Brecht WyseurBjorn De Sutter

A bimodal scheduler for coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays

Panagiotis TheocharisBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION

A reference architecture for software protection

Bjorn De SutterPaolo FalcarinBrecht WyseurCataldo BasileMariano CeccatoJerome d'AnnovilleMichael Zunke

Attack simulation based software protection assessment method

Gaofeng ZhangPaolo FalcarinElena Gomez-MartinezShareeful IslamChristophe TartaryBjorn De SutterJerome d'Annoville

Attack simulation based software protection assessment method with Petri net

G ZhangP FalcarinE Gomez-MartinezS IslamC TartaryBjorn De SutterJ d'Annoville

A2 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON CYBER SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Cloning your gadgets: complete ROP attack immunity with multi-variant execution

Stijn VolckaertBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING

Evaluation of dynamic binary translation techniques for full system virtualisation on ARMv7-A

Niels PennemanDanielius KudinskasAlasdair RawsthorneBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

Link-time smart card code hardening

Ronald De KeulenaerJonas MaebeKoen De BosschereBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY

Secure and efficient application monitoring and replication

Stijn VolckaertBart CoppensAlexios VoulimeneasAndrei HomescuPer LarsenBjorn De SutterMichael Franz

SOFIA : software and control flow integrity architecture

Ruan de ClercqRonald De KeulenaerBart CoppensBohan YangPieter MaeneKoen De BosschereBart PreneelBjorn De SutterIngrid Verbauwhede

The ASPIRE framework for software protection

Bjorn De SutterCataldo BasileMariano CeccatoPaolo FalcarinMichael ZunkeBrecht WyseurJerome d'Annoville

Tightly-coupled self-debugging software protection

Bert AbrathBart CoppensStijn VolckaertJoris WijnantBjorn De Sutter

2015

A virtualisation framework for embedded systems

Niels PennemanKoen De BosschereBjorn De Sutter

Adaptive just-in-time code diversification

Abhinav JangdaMohit MishraBjorn De Sutter

Advanced techniques for multi-variant execution

Stijn VolckaertBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

Automatic discovery of software attacks via backward reasoning

Cataldo BasileDaniele CanaveseJerome d'AnnovilleBjorn De SutterFulvio Valenza

Automatically combining static malware detection techniques

David De LilleBart CoppensDaan RamanBjorn De Sutter

Case study of multiple trace transform implementations

Tim BesardAndres Frias VelazquezBjorn De SutterWilfried Philips

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

Compiler strategies for mitigating timing side channel attacks

Jeroen Van CleemputBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

Global obfuscation of bytecode applications

Christophe FoketBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

It's a TRaP: table randomization and protection against function-reuse attacks

Stephen CraneStijn VolckaertFelix SchusterChristopher LiebchenPer LarsenLucas DaviAhmad-Reza SadeghiBjorn De SutterMichael Franz

Making advanced software protection tools usable for non-experts

Bjorn De Sutter

Obfuscating windows DLLs

Bert AbrathBart CoppensStijn VolckaertBjorn De Sutter

Software protection with code mobility

Alessandro CabuttoPaolo FalcarinBert AbrathBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

2014

Poster: a measurement framework to quantify software protections

Paolo TonellaMariano CeccatoBjorn De SutterBart Coppens

Pushing Java type obfuscation to the limit

Christophe FoketBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING

2013

A novel obfuscation: class hierarchy flattening

Christophe FoketBjorn De SutterBart CoppensKoen De Bosschere

Coarse-grained reconfigurable array architectures

Bjorn De SutterPraveen RaghavanAndy Lambrechts

Bookchapter in Handbook of signal processing systems

Feedback-driven binary code diversification

Bart CoppensBjorn De SutterJonas Maebe

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION

Formal virtualization requirements for the ARM architecture

Niels PennemanDanielius KudinskasAlasdair RawsthorneBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

GHUMVEE: efficient, effective, and flexible replication

Stijn VolckaertBjorn De SutterTim De BaetsKoen De Bosschere

Mitigating smart card fault injection with link-time code rewriting: a feasibility study

Jonas MaebeRonald De KeulenaerBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

Program variation for software security

Bart CoppensKoen De BosschereBjorn De Sutter

Protecting your software updates

Bart CoppensBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY

2012

Compiler mitigations for time attacks on modern x86 processors

Jeroen Van CleemputBart CoppensBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON ARCHITECTURE AND CODE OPTIMIZATION

DNS tunneling for network penetration

Daan RamanBjorn De SutterBart CoppensStijn VolckaertKoen De BosscherePieter DanhieuxErik Van Buggenhout

To be or not to be cited in computer science

Bjorn De SutterAäron van den Oord

A1 Journal Article in COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

2011

ARMor: fully verified software fault isolation

Lu ZhaoGuodong LiBjorn De SutterJohn Regehr

Refactoring using type constraints

Frank TipRobert M FurherAdam KiezunMichael D ErnstIttai BalabanBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS

2010

An efficient memory organization for high-ILP inner modem baseband SDR processors

Bjorn De SutterOsman AllamPraveen RaghavanRoeland VandebrielHans CapelleTom Vander AaBingfeng Mei

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

An FPGA-based real-time event sampler

Niels PennemanLuc PerneelMartin TimmermanBjorn De Sutter

Coarse-grained reconfigurable array architectures

Bjorn De SutterPraveen RaghavanAndy Lambrechts

Bookchapter in Handbook of signal processing systems

Compilation techniques for CGRAs: exploring all parallelization approaches

Tom Vander AaPraveen RaghavanScott MahlkeBjorn De SutterAviral ShrivastavaFrank Hannig

The Hipeac Vision, 2010

Marc DurantonSami YehiaBjorn De SutterKoen De BosschereAlbert CohenBabak FalsafiGeorgi GaydadjievManolis KatevenisJonas MaebeHarm Munk et al.

2009

Design and tool flow of multimedia MPSoC platforms

Bjorn De SutterDiedrik VerkestErik BrockmeyerEric DelfosseArnout VandecappelleJean-Yves Mignolet

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

Mapping of nomadic multimedia applications on the ADRES reconfigurable array processor

Mladen BerekovicAndreas KansteinBingfeng MeiBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS

Practical mitigations for timing-based side-channel attacks

Bart CoppensIngrid VerbauwhedeKoen De BosschereBjorn De Sutter

2008

A coarse-grained array accelerator for software-defined radio baseband processing

Bruno BougardBjorn De SutterDiederik VerkestLiesbet Van der PerreRudy Lauwereins

A1 Journal Article in IEEE MICRO

Implementation of a coarse-grained reconfigurable media processor for AVC decoder

Bingfeng MeiBjorn De SutterTom Vander AaMaryse WoutersA KansteinS Dupont

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR SIGNAL IMAGE AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

Instruction set limitation in support of software diversity

Bjorn De SutterBertrand AnckaertJens GeiregatDominique ChanetKoen De Bosschere

Placement-and-routing-based register allocation for coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays

Bjorn De SutterPaul CoeneTom Vander AaBingfeng Mei

A1 Journal Article in ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

2007

A practical interprocedural dominance algorithm

Bjorn De SutterLudo Van PutKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS

Automated reduction of the memory footprint of the Linux kernel

Dominique ChanetBjorn De SutterBruno De BusLudo Van PutKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Link-time compaction and optimization of ARM executables

Bjorn De SutterLudo Van PutDominique ChanetBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING SYSTEMS

2006

Bidirectional liveness analysis, or how less than half of the Alpha's registers are used

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

Hardware and a tool chain for ADRES

Bjorn De SutterBingfeng MeiAndrei BarticTom Vander AaMladen BerekovicJean-Yves MignoletKris CroesPaul CoeneMiro CupacAïssa Couvreur et al.

A1 Journal Article in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Software protection through dynamic code mutation

Matias MadouBertrand AnckaertPatrick MoseleySaumya DebrayBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

2005

Backtracking and dynamic patching for free

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusMichiel RonsseKoen De Bosschere

Calculating the interprocedural dominator relation

Ludo Van PutBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

DIABLO: a reliable, retargetable and extensible link-time rewriting framework

Ludo Van PutDominique ChanetBruno De BusBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

Hybrid Static-Dynamic Attacks against Software Protection Mechanisms

Matias MadouBertrand AnckaertBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

LANCET: a nifty code editing tool

Ludo Van PutBjorn De SutterMatias MadouBruno De BusDominique ChanetK SMITSKoen De Bosschere

Link-time binary rewriting techniques for program compaction

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS

Steganography for executables and code transformation signatures

Bertrand AnckaertBjorn De SutterDominique ChanetKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

System-wide compaction and specialization of the Linux kernel

Dominique ChanetBjorn De SutterBruno De BusLudo Van PutKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

2004

Customization of Java library classes using type constraints and profile information

Bjorn De SutterR TIPJ DOLBY

A1 Journal Article in ECOOP 2004 - OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

Link-time compaction of MIPS programs

Matias MadouBjorn De SutterBruno De BusscherLudo Van PutKoen De Bosschere

Link-time optimization of ARM binaries

Bruno De BusBjorn De SutterLudo Van PutDominique ChanetKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

Link-time optimization of IA64 binaries

Bertrand AnckaertFrederik VandeputteBruno De BusBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in EURO-PAR 2004 PARALLEL PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS

Optimizing a Linux Kernel for Space

Dominique ChanetBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

Software Piracy Prevention through Diversity

Bertrand AnckaertBjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

The Design and Implementation of FIT: a Flexible Instrumentation Toolkit

Bruno De BusDominique ChanetBjorn De SutterLudo Van PutKoen De Bosschere

2003

On the side-effects of code abstraction

Bjorn De SutterHans VandierendonckBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

Post-pass compaction techniques

Bruno De BusD KASTNERDominique ChanetLudo Van PutBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Software techniques for program compaction

Bjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

2002

Compactie van programma's na het linken

Bjorn De SutterKoen De Bosschere

Sifting out the Mud; Low Level C++ Code Reuse.

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

A1 Journal Article in ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

2001

Combining global code and data compaction.

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De BosschereS DEBRAY

A1 Journal Article in ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES

Conflict Graph Based Allocation of Objects to Memory Banks.

P KEYNGNAERTB DEMOENBjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

Conflict graph based allocation of static objects to memory banks.

P KEYNGNAERTB DEMOENBjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De Bosschere

2000

Compiler techniques for code compaction.

SK DEBRAYW EVANSR MUTHBjorn De Sutter

A1 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS

On the Static Analysis of Indirect Control Transfers in Binaries

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De BosschereP KEYNGNAERTB DEMOEN

On the static analysis of indirect control transfers in binaries

Bjorn De SutterBruno De BusKoen De BosschereP KEYNGNAERTB DEMOEN

1999

A fast, cache-aware algorithm for the calculation of radiological paths exploiting subword parallelism.

Mark ChristiaensBjorn De SutterKoen De BosschereJan Van CampenhoutIgnace Lemahieu

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

1998

A fast algorithm to calculate the exact radiological path through a pixel or voxel space

Filip JacobsErik SundermannBjorn De SutterMark ChristiaensIgnace Lemahieu

A2 Journal Article in CIT. JOURNAL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY