About Me

I am a post-doctoral research at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My research mainly revolves around defect detection for Infrastructure as Code, with a focus on the Ansible language. My research interests include software quality and code smells, pattern mining in source code, anomaly detection, library/API usages, and mining software repositories.

In October 2024, I obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences with a dissertation entitled “Static Analysis for Quality Assurance of Ansible Infrastructure-as-Code Artefacts” at Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Coen De Roover, available for download here. In 2019, I obtained my MSc in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a MSc thesis titled “Exploring Static Inter-Procedural API Misuse Detection Using Graph Inlining”, available for download here. In 2017, I obtained my BSc in Computer Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel with a BSc thesis titled “Towards Template-Driven Source Code Transformations in C++”, available for download here.

Recent publications

• July 30, 2025: Smelling Secrets: Leveraging Machine Learning and Language Models for Sensitive Parameter Detection in Ansible Security Analysis (SCAM'25)
• May 01, 2025: Performance Testing in Open-Source Web Projects: Adoption, Maintenance, and a Change Taxonomy (ICSME'25)
• April 28, 2025: E2EGit: A Dataset of End-to-End Web Tests in Open Source Projects (MSR'25)

Recent/upcoming talks and presentations

• March 05, 2025: Analysing Software Supply Chains of Infrastructure as Code: Extraction of Ansible Plugin Dependencies (Montreal, Canada)
• November 14, 2024: Software Composition Analysis – Covering Infrastructure as Code (Mechelen, Belgium)
• November 14, 2024: Delivering security by design: testing, supply chain challenges … (Mechelen, Belgium)