Merlijn Sebrechts

Merlijn Sebrechts

Teaching and researching
software engineering

Conferences

  • Wat is “open” AI nu eigenlijk echt? (event)
    Science Festival Ghent, 24 November 2024

  • Wetenschapsfestival - Slimme auto’s, zijn die wel veilig? (event)
    Science Festival Ghent, 24 November 2024

  • State of the cloud 2024
    LSEC Annual General Meeting 2024, 20 November 2024 [invited talk]

  • WebAssembly for IoT Devices: Interfacing with USB and I2C Hardware (event)
    WasmCon 2024, 12 November 2024

  • Cyber-physical WebAssembly
    WebAssembly Research Center Discussion Series, 7 November 2024 [invited talk]

  • Bringing Containerization to the Cyber-physical Edge with WebAssembly and WASI
    Telefónica Research Tech Talk, 30 October 2024 [invited talk]

  • The Service Mesh Architecture (event)
    CIONET squad sessions 2024, 15 October 2024 [invited talk]

  • Panel: Platform Engineering: Unveiling the Next Evolution in DevOps (event, recording)
    DASA Connect 2024, 31 May 2024 [invited panelist]

  • Keynote: AI is breaking Open Source (event, recording)
    Drupalcamp Ghent 2024, 11 May 2024 [invited keynote]

  • Hoe open source software de (AI) wereld verbetert (event, interview)
    Science Festival Ghent, 26 November 2023

  • Pitch my PostDoc: what if your car gets a virus (event)
    Ghent University Postdoc Day 2024, November 2023

  • Do-ocratic communities: when merit is not the only metric (event, recording)
    Ubuntu Summit 2023, November 2023

  • Bringing Windows applications to Linux app stores (event, recording)
    Ubuntu Summit 2023, November 2023

  • Community Council: Ask Us Anything! (event)
    Ubuntu Summit 2023, November 2023

  • Bringing orchestration to the edge with the wasm Component Model (event, recording)
    Wasm Research Day 2023, 13 October 2023_ [invited talk]

  • Zero-trust Encryption at Rest With Ceph, Vault and Rook
    Crypto focus group - Belgian Cybersecurity Coalition, 6 March 2023 [invited talk]

  • Open Source Cloud Technologies & Solutions
    Cloud Security focus group - Belgian Cybersecurity Coalition, 15 Februari 2023 [invited talk]

  • Vraag het aan een expert - Linux en Open Source
    FEA Alumnidag 2023, March 2023

  • Lightweight Kubernetes Operators with WebAssembly (recording)
    FOSDEM 2023, 4 Februari 2023

  • Teaching programming using GitHub, Jupyter notebooks & devContainers
    Science Labs Visiedag, June 2022

  • Cloud: From Lift/Shift to the Complexity of Cloud-Native
    V-ICT-OR, 13 September 2022 [invited talk]

  • Solving conflict in a community of equals (recording)
    Remote Chaos Communications Congress, December 2020

  • Podcast: Building Communities with Do-ocracy - Hackerspace Design (recording)
    36c3 Podcast, December 2019

  • Do-ocracy done well (recording)
    36c3, December 2019

  • Tengu: A Big Data Experimentation Sandbox (recording)
    Juju Charmers Summit Pasadena, 13 September 2016 [invited talk]

Teaching

Guest Lectures

  • Introduction to WebAssembly
    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (course Webdevelopment), 2025

  • Introduction to GDPR*
    Bachelor of Science in information engineering technology, 2024 - now

  • Introduction to Open Source & IP law
    Bachelor of Science in information engineering technology, 2023 - now

  • DevOps - software testing
    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2024

  • OpenCloudification workshops and webinars
    Bi-monthly webinars and workshops on Cloud, Edge and Open Source software, 2022 - now

Courses

  • Introduction to MLOps - practicals & theory
    UGain & VAIA, 2025

  • Systems Design - Lecturer-in-charge
    Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2022-2023 till now

  • Summer of Code - Coordination
    Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2022-2023 till now

  • Systeembeheer - practicals and lecture Infrastructure as Code
    Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2020-2021 till now

  • Cloud Storage and Computing - practicals and lecture Infrastructure as Code
    Master of Science in Computer Science Engineering, 2023-2024 till now

  • Research Project - coach
    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering, 2022-2023 till now

  • Beveiliging van Netwerken en Computers - practicals
    Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2022-2023 till now

  • Vakoverschrijdend Project - coach
    Bachelor of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2022-2023 till now

  • Gedistribueerde Dataverwerking - practicals
    Bachelor of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2019-2020 till now

  • Big Data Hands-on - practicals
    UGain, 2019 till 2020

  • Informatica - practicals
    Bachelor Science in Engineering Technology, 2019-2020

  • Programmeren in C en C++ - practicals
    Bachelor of Science in Information Engineering Technology, 2023-2024 till now

  • Programmeren - practicals
    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Engineering, 2015-2016 till 2021-2022

  • Systeemprogrammeren - Coach
    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2015-2016 till 2021-2022

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