Recent PhD Theses

Dessain, Quentin. Brain biomarkers from diffusion MRI: correction of motion artifacts, acceleration of microstructure estimation, and disease classification with transformers, prom. : Macq, Benoît, 21/05/2025.

Sayez, Niels. Convolutional Neural Networks for the Identification, Characterization and Modality Translation of Solar Active Regions from Ground-based Observations, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe ; Delouille, Véronique, 16/05/2025.

Nabet, Massinissa. Enhanced high-resistivity silicon-based substrates for RF and mmWave FD-SOI circuits, prom. : Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 26/02/2025.

Devillez, Henri. Exploring the limits of verifiable voting, prom. : Pereira, Olivier ; Peters, Thomas, 25/04/2025.

Goletti, Olivier. Improving Tutors’ Practice by Integrating Explicit Instructional Programming Strategies in Introductory Programming Courses at University, prom. : Mens, Kim ; Hermans, Felienne, 12/02/2025.

Brummer, Benoît. Joint learned compression and denoising schemes for improved photographic image quality and reduced processing complexity, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe, 12/03/2025.

Daglayan Sevim, Hazan. Low-rank techniques for exoplanet detection in high contrast images, prom. : Absil, Pierre-Antoine ; Gillis, Nicolas, 15/01/2025.

Kaschten, Vincent. Mismatched Luneburg Lens Antennas for FMCW Radar Systems, prom. : Craeye, Christophe ; Lederer, Dimitri, 23/05/2025.

Roisin, Nicolas. Optical and electrical properties of highly strained silicon towards extended infrared photodetection, prom. : Flandre, Denis ; Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 18/02/2025.

El Khoury, Karim. Optimized frameworks for deep learning on compressed images, prom. : Macq, Benoît, 30/01/2025.

Somers , Vladimir. Person Re-Identification and its application to Multi-Object Tracking, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe ; Alahi, Alexandre, 05/05/2025.

Hoffmann, Clément. Post-quantum side-channel security from hard physical learning problems, prom. : Standaert, François-Xavier, 17/01/2025.

Ghasemzadeh, Seyed Abolfazl. Ray-based multi-view 2D to 3D pose lifter, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe, 20/06/2025.

Colmant, Lise. Screening for Alzheimer's pathology in the elderly population : focus on spatial navigation, prom. : Hanseeuw, Bernard ; Lefèvre, Philippe, 06/03/2025.

Dubray, Alexandre. Specialising Model Counting for Probabilistic Inference, prom. : Schaus, Pierre ; Nijssen, Siegfried, 17/06/2025.

Puyol Troisi, Rafael. Ultra-low-power interface circuits for gas sensors with a high resistance range, prom. : Flandre, Denis, 24/06/2025.

Van Zandycke, Gabriel. 3D objects localization from a single calibrated viewpoint : a study of basketballs, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe, 23/05/2024.

Ousmer, Mehdi. A Systematic Procedure for Comparative Testing of 3D Hand Gesture Template-Based Recognizers in Multiple Contexts of Use, prom. : Vanderdonckt, Jean ; Roselli, Paolo, 11/04/2024.

Coppé, Vianney. Advances in discrete optimization with decision diagrams : dominance, caching and aggregation-based heuristics, prom. : Schaus, Pierre, 23/01/2024.

Sluÿters, Arthur. An integrated development environment for gesture-based interactive applications : instantiation to radar gestures, prom. : Vanderdonckt, Jean ; Lambot, Sébastien, 18/03/2024.

Bertrand Van Ouytsel, Charles-Henry. Analysis and classification of malware based on symbolic execution and machine learning, prom. : Legay, Axel, 29/02/2024.

Collin, Anne-Sophie. Anomaly detection in industrial vision with convolutional autoencoders, prom. : De Vleschouwer, Christophe, 31/10/2024.

Lefebvre, Martin. Area-Efficient nA-to-µA Constant-with-Temperature CMOS Current References for the Internet of Things, prom. : Bol, David, 03/04/2024.

Quatresooz, Florian. Atmospheric turbulence modelling and monitoring for satellite-to-ground optical communications, prom. : Oestges, Claude, 03/12/2024.

Englebert, Alexandre. Bone X-Ray analysis with explainable AI and multimodal self-supervised learning, prom. : De Vleeschouwer , Christophe ; Cornu, Olivier, 25/11/2024.

Kneip, Adrian. Bridging the hardware-software co-design gap in analog compute-in-memory accelerators towards edge CNN classification, prom. : Bol, David, 31/01/2024.

Cardinael, Pieter. Characterization, modelling and mitigation of substrate-induced effects in RF GaN-on-Si technology, prom. : Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 27/08/2024.

Kilcioglu, Emre. Collaborative on-device CNN inference : design and optimization of communication and computation, prom. : Vandendorpe, Luc, 25/03/2024.

Leblanc, Olivier. Compressive and neural-representation strategies for inverse problems From interferometric imaging to diffraction tomography, prom. : Jacques, Laurent, 11/10/2024.

Colla, Sébastien. Computer-aided analysis of decentralized optimization methods, prom. : Hendrickx, Julien, 20/09/2024.

Hoffmann, Anne. Dynamic multisensory integration during human reaching movements, prom. : Crevecoeur, Frédéric, 19/06/2024.

Halder, Arka. Exploring the back-end-of-line impact on self heating in advanced silicon-on-insulator RF MOSFETs, prom. : Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 30/09/2024.

Piraux, Maxime. Improving transport protocols for better flexibility, prom. : Bonaventure, Olivier, 20/12/2024.

De Saint Moulin, François. Integrated sensing and communication : from electromagnetic modelling to interference management in large-scale networks, prom. : Oestges, Claude ; Vandendorpe, Luc, 03/09/2024.

Thiran, Guillaume. Multi-function multi-point wireless networks: Interference analysis and management, prom. : Vandendorpe, Luc, 14/10/2024.

Gerniers, Alexander. Multivariate rare cell mining and biomarker identification from single-cell data, prom. : Dupont, Pierre ; Nijssen, Siegfried, 22/10/2024.

Cho, Jehum. Optimization under uncertainty with power system applications, prom. : Papavasiliou, Anthony ; Catanzaro, Daniele, 25/01/2024.

Debauche, Virginie. Path-Complete and Neural Lyapunov Functions: Computation and Performance, prom. : Jungers, Raphaël, 13/09/2024.

Bidoul, Noémie. Potential of vanadium dioxide for artificial sensory neurons, prom. : Flandre, Denis, 17/10/2024.

Momin, Charles. Preventing differential side-channel attacks in hardware : from generic to specific solutions, prom. : Standaert, François-Xavier, 16/02/2024.

Nana, Yang. Reducing manual annotation load for CNN-based image segmentation, prom. : Christophe , De Vleeschouwer, 18/10/2024.

Udvarhelyi, Balazs. Securing micro-controllers against side-channel attacks : evaluation tools and applications, prom. : Standaert, François-Xavier, 26/01/2024.

Manjah, Dani. Stream based active distillation and holonic architecture for scalable camera systems, prom. : Macq, Benoît ; Galland, Stéphane, 18/11/2024.

Blondiaux, Florence. Study of the fingerprint of essential tremor in motor control and its links on cerebellar-cortical connectivity, prom. : Crevecoeur, Frédéric ; Hanseeuw, Bernard, 18/09/2024.

Loyen, Estelle. Synthetic 3DCT reconstruction using fluoroscopy and convolutional neural networks for patient-specific real-time image-guided proton therapy, prom. : Macq, Benoit, 15/11/2024.

Delinte, Nicolas. White matter microstructure estimation and visualization in neuropathological brains via diffusion MRI, prom. : Macq, Benoit ; Dricot, Laurence, 16/09/2024.

Nyssens, Lucas. A systemic analysis of silicon substrates toward improvements of integrated FD-SOI circuits performance at mm-wave frequencies, prom. : Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 28/06/2023.

Monnoyer de Galland de Carnières, Gilles. Accelerated sparse signal decomposition for single-step estimation in multistatic radars and sensor networks, prom. : Vandendorpe, Luc ; Jacques, Laurent, 10/10/2023.

Thomas, Charles. Advanced modelling and search techniques for routing and scheduling problems, prom. : Schaus, Pierre, 08/02/2023.

Pirson, Thibault. Environmental perspectives and limits for the Internet of Things in the Anthropocene : going beyond systematic Life-Cycle Assessment, prom. : Bol, David, 21/09/2023.

Olikier, Guillaume. First-order optimization on stratified sets : theory and algorithms, prom. : Absil, Pierre-Antoine ; De Lathauwer, Lieven, 19/06/2023.

Michel, François. Flexible QUIC loss recovery mechanisms for latency-sensitive applications, prom. : Bonaventure, Olivier, 12/10/2023.

Le Brun, Grégoire. Impedimetric gold nanoparticle lateral flow test for pathogen detection, prom. : Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 18/07/2023.

Wirtgen, Thomas. Improving the agility of BGP routing, prom. : Bonaventure, Olivier, 04/10/2023.

Amor, Sedki. In-situ thermal annealing technique for process and radiation-induced defects in SOI MOS devices, prom. : Francis , Laurent ; Machhout, Mohsen, 31/05/2023.

Zhou, Yuanyuan. Information extraction and exploitation for efficient side-channel security evaluations, prom. : Standaert, François-Xavier, 21/03/2023.

Istasse, Maxime. Instance segmentation with pixelwise convolutional neural network embeddings, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe, 03/07/2023.

Wiame, Charles. Joint coverage and EMF exposure analysis in cellular and cell-free networks : a stochastic geometry perspective, prom. : Oestges, Claude ; Vandendorpe, Luc, 27/06/2023.

Diao, Ousmane. Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases : COVID-19 and Malaria, prom. : Absil, Pierre-Antoine ; Diallo, Mouhamadou, 28/08/2023.

Jabbari Gargari, Farzad. Modeling and design of a connected birdcage coil for ultra-high field MRI, prom. : Craeye, Christophe, 23/01/2023.

Kadima Kazaku, Jacques. Modelling, analysis and control of counterflow heat exchangers : an infinite-dimensional and thermodynamic approach, prom. : Dochain, Denis ; Jungers, Raphaël, 30/05/2023.

Demey, Simon. Stochastic geometry-based models for cellular network deployment, prom. : Oestges, Claude ; De Doncker, Philippe, 14/06/2023.

Deknop, Céline. Understanding large codebase refactoring through differencing, prom. : Mens, Kim ; Zaytsev , Vadim, 15/12/2023.

Ketoma, Vix Kemanji. VRTrain : a method for developing head-mounted-display based virtual reality training applications, prom. : Vanderdonckt, Jean ; Meixner, Gerrit, 17/02/2023.

Fakher Hussein Soliman Reda, Waleed. Accelerating distributed storage in heterogeneous settings, prom. : Van Roy, Peter ; Kostic, Dejan, 30/05/2022.

Bilal, Muhammad. Automatic configuration for cloud workloads, prom. : Van Roy, Peter ; Rodrigues, Rodrigo, 31/05/2022.

De Comite, Antoine. Behavioral studies of dynamical control policies underlying human reaching movements, prom. : Lefèvre, Philippe ; Crevecoeur, Frédéric, 10/02/2022.

Jadin, Mathieu. Bringing path diversity to the endhosts using Software Defined Networks and IPv6 Segment Routing, prom. : Bonaventure, Olivier, 10/11/2022.

Jadin, Mathieu. Bringing path diversity to the endhosts using Software Defined Networks and IPv6 Segment Routing, prom. : Bonaventure, Olivier, 10/11/2022.

Cassiers, Gaëtan. Composable and efficient masking schemes for side-channel secure implementations, prom. : Standaert, François-Xavier, 23/06/2022.

Dewez, Julien. Computational approaches for lower bounds on the nonnegative rank, prom. : Glineur, François, 31/01/2022.

Batbayar, Khulan. Connectivity sharing in wireless mesh network, prom. : Meseguer, Roc ; Sadre, Ramin, 11/03/2022.

Dekimpe, Rémi. Cross-layer and cross-domain power optimization towards sustainable biomedical CMOS sensor systems, prom. : Bol, David, 03/11/2022.

Hamaide, Valentin. Data-driven learning and optimization approaches for proton therapy, prom. : Glineur, François ; Macq, Benoît, 03/10/2022.

Yildirim, Hasan Can. Design of Passive Radars based on Wi-Fi 802.11ax Signals, prom. : Louveaux, Jerome ; Horlin, Francois, 26/09/2022.

Gillard, Xavier. Discrete optimization with decision diagrams : design of a generic solver, improved bounding techniques, and discovery of good feasible solutions with large neighborhood search, prom. : Schaus, Pierre, 21/10/2022.

Hamer, Victor. Estimation and optimization of feature selection stability with applications to omics data, prom. : Dupont, Pierre, 07/12/2022.

Schramme, Maxime. Exploiting forward back-biasing capabilities of FDSOI CMOS technology for unified ULP clock generation and PVT compensation, prom. : Bol, David, 22/03/2022.

Zeng, Xi. Fabrication and characterization of opto-electronic devices based on p-type thin-film semiconductors, prom. : Flandre, Denis, 09/12/2022.

Duhoux, Benoît. Feature-based context-oriented software development, prom. : Mens, Kim ; Dumas, Bruno, 26/08/2022.

Schiltz, Félicien. Fingerpad mechanics and grip force adaptation to friction during object manipulation, prom. : Lefèvre, Philippe ; Thonnard, Jean-Louis, 01/04/2022.

Kabasele Ndonda, Gorby Nicolas. Intrusion detection for industrial control systems, prom. : Sadre, Ramin, 18/03/2022.

Mudonhi, Alfred. Millimeter-wave massive MIMO channel characterization and modelling for 5G and 6G applications, prom. : Oestges, Claude ; D'Errico, Raffaele, 05/05/2022.

Van Hoorebeeck, Loïc. Nonconvex and nonsmooth economic dispatch, prom. : Absil, Pierre-Antoine ; Papavasiliou, Anthony, 23/05/2022.

Hautecoeur, Cécile. Nonnegative Matrix Factorization using parametrizable functions, prom. : Glineur, François, 10/10/2022.

Monnoyer de Galland de Carnières, Charles. Open multi-agent systems: representation, limitations and decentralized optimization, prom. : Hendrickx, Julien, 21/10/2022.

Aglin, Gaël. Optimal decision trees under constraints, prom. : Schaus, Pierre ; Nijssen, Siegfried, 19/10/2022.

Aspeel, Antoine. Optimal sampling for state estimation of stochastic dynamical systems, prom. : Macq, Benoit ; Jungers, Raphaël, 29/04/2022.

Akin, Ayse Ipek. Performance analysis of SWIPT networks, prom. : Vandendorpe, Luc, 04/07/2022.

Vercauteren, Roselien. Porous silicon flow-through membrane : application to the optical detection of bacteria from their lysate, prom. : Francis, Laurent ; Mahillon, Jacques, 25/11/2022.

Rodomanov, Anton. Quasi-Newton methods with provable efficiency guarantees, prom. : Nesterov, Yurii, 23/08/2022.

Chédé, Akpaki. Robust spectrum sensing for mobile cognitive radio, prom. : Louveaux, Jérôme ; Dossou, Michel, 26/04/2022.

Xhonneux, Mathieu. Software-defined and multi-user LPWAN radios : towards preventing the obsolescence of IoT devices, prom. : Bol, David ; Louveaux, Jérôme, 09/11/2022.

Van Brandt, Léopold. Statistical analyses of intrinsic noise and variability effects in CMOS digital latches, prom. : Flandre, Denis, 12/09/2022.

Carbonnelle, Simon. Towards understanding deep learning with the natural clustering prior, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe ; Van Reybroeck, Marie, 24/01/2022.

Caina Aysabucha, Darwin Rodolfo. Wearable nano-engineered systems : towards real-time health monitoring for remote places, prom. : Melinte, Sorin, 19/01/2022.

Bronchain, Olivier. Worst-case side-channel security : from evaluation of countermeasures to new designs, prom. : Standaert, François-Xavier, 21/01/2022.

Javaid, Umair. Automated image segmentation and accelerated dose calculation for proton therapy using deep convolutional neural networks, prom. : Lee, John, 22/02/2021.

Zavalyshyn, Igor. Building private-by-design IoT systems, prom. : Sadre, Ramin, 10/09/2021.

Brion, Eliott. Deep learning for organ segmentation in radiotherapy : federated learning, contour propagation, and domain adaptation, prom. : Lee, John ; Macq, Benoit, 22/02/2021.

Xu, Pengcheng. Design methodology and implementation of RF energy harvesting system for wireless power transfer, prom. : Bol, David ; Flandre, Denis, 27/01/2021.

Berger, Guillaume. Dominated splitting and quantization of hybrid systems : towards efficient control of cyber-physical systems and networked control systems, prom. : Jungers, Raphaël, 24/08/2021.

Schellekens, Vincent. Extending the compressive statistical learning framework : quantization, privacy and beyond, prom. : Jacques, Laurent, 28/06/2021.

Cavillot, Jean. Fast electromagnetic analysis of large objects involving planar layered media : application to antenna arrays and metasurfaces, prom. : Craeye, Christophe, 24/11/2021.

Derval, Guillaume. Finding maximum sum submatrices, prom. : Schaus, Pierre, 10/12/2021.

Branders, Vincent. Finding submatrices of maximal sum : applications to the analysis of gene expression data, prom. : Dupont, Pierre ; Schaus, Pierre, 23/08/2021.

Chiêm, Benjamin. Interweaving structure and function in human brain networks, prom. : Delvenne, Jean-Charles ; Crevecoeur, Frédéric, 22/09/2021.

Dong, Shuyu. Low-rank matrix and tensor completion using graph-based regularization, prom. : Absil, Pierre-Antoine ; Gallivan, Kyle A., 25/05/2021.

Rack, Martin. Modelling of advanced silicon-based substrates for RF and mm-wave applications, prom. : Raskin, Jean-Pierre, 07/06/2021.

Doikov, Nikita. New second-order and tensor methods in convex optimization, prom. : Nesterov, Yurii, 20/09/2021.

Nawaz, Kashif. Noise analysis for the design of side-channel secure cryptographic circuits, prom. : Flandre, Denis ; Standaert, François-Xavier, 09/09/2021.

Villegas Gutierrez, Julian David. Non-stationary spatial shadowing models for micro-cellular radio links, prom. : Oestges, Claude, 14/10/2021.

Feuillen, Thomas. One bit at a time : the use of quantized compressive sensing in radar signal processing, prom. : Jacques, Laurent ; Vandendorpe, Luc, 29/10/2021.

El Khoury, Ghady. Patient-centered outcomes in hand surgery, prom. : Lefèvre, Philippe ; Barbier, Olivier, 08/11/2021.

Guérit, Stéphanie. Physics-based computational imaging for positron emission tomography and lensless endoscopy, prom. : Jacques, Laurent ; Lee, John A., 01/07/2021.

Imtiaz, Sana. Privacy preserving behaviour learning for the IoT ecosystem, prom. : Sadre, Ramin ; Vlassov, Vladimir, 17/12/2021.

Degeest, Alexandra. Relevance criteria for feature selection using filters and dynamic environments, prom. : Verleysen, Michel ; Frénay, Benoît, 10/09/2021.

Kassab, Hussein. SWIPT transceiver design for broadband wireless systems, prom. : Louveaux, Jérôme ; Vandendorpe, Luc, 25/11/2021.

Abbas, Zainab. Scalable streaming graph and time series analysis using partitioning and machine learning, prom. : Van Roy, Peter ; Vlassov, Vladimir, 04/10/2021.

Opsomer, Laurent. Short- and long-term adaptation of grip dynammics and arm kinematics to altered gravito-inertial environments, prom. : Lefèvre, Philippe ; Thonnard, Jean-Louis, 30/09/2021.

Azouaoui, Melissa. Shortcut side-channel security evaluations : application to elliptic curve cryptography, masking and shuffling, prom. : Standaert, François-xavier, 11/10/2021.

Verhaeghe, Hélène. The extensional constraint, prom. : Schaus, Pierre ; Lecoutre, Christophe, 31/08/2021.

Massart, Clément. Towards bounding the effectiveness of statistical attacks in security and privacy, prom. : Mouraux, André ; Standaert, François-Xavier, 02/06/2021.

Dasnoy-Sumell, Damien. Towards real-time image-guided radiotherapy : 3D patient-specific breathing motion models driven by 2D cine-MRI , prom. : Macq, Benoît, 31/03/2021.

Léger, Jean. Training biomedical image segmentation CNNs with scarce, cross-domain, prior, or noisy supervision, prom. : De Vleeschouwer, Christophe ; Macq, Benoit, 30/09/2021.