Bjorn De Sutter is a Professor in the Computer Systems Lab in the Electronics and Information Systems Department of Ghent University. His areas of interest include Coarse-grained reconfigurable computing: compilation techniques and design space exploration, Whole-Program Optimization & Compiler Optimization: Performance and Code Size, and Compiler Techniques for Software Protection: software diversity, obfuscation, side-channel mitigation, code hardening. His research at Ghent University has been funded by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO), the European Commission, the the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), and several bilateral industrial collaborations.
Since November 2013, Bjorn coordinates the European research project ASPIRE, which performs research into Advanced Software Protection: Integration, Research, and Exploitation. In the above areas, Bjorn published over 50 papers in international journals and conferences. He also participated in more than 20 program committees in these research areas. For his Master thesis (in collaboration with Mark Christiaens) on multimedia architectures, he won the yearly Barco Award for Graduation Dissertations 1998, awarded by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders.
In 2013, Bjorn won a HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award. From November 2002 to July 2003, he visited IBM T.J. Watson Research Center to collaborate with Frank Tip on whole-program optimization of Java programs by means of automated container class optimization and refactoring. This work (and the work building on it) was recognized as a “Research Accomplishment” at IBM Research (in the category “Fundamental Contributions to Science and Technology”). From 2005 to 2007, Bjorn worked in the compiler and computer architecture team at IMEC. From late 2006 on, he lead the team that developed the ADRES coarse-grain dynamically reconfigurable array architecture and the corresponding ANSI-C compiler. From 2008-2011, he was also a faculty member of the Embedded Systems Group of the Department of Electronics and Informatics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.