Mike Vandersanden
Summary
Curriculum Vitae
💻 Computer Science PhD Student @ Hasselt University
🏴☠️ Finalist Cyber Security Challenge Belgium
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🌐 https://vandersanden.xyz
linkedin.com/in/mike-vandersanden
🏠 Limburg, Belgium
Experience
- 2022-Present
- Computer Science PhD Student at Hasselt University, Hasselt
- Research within the Networking and Secured Systems research group.
- Focussing on video streaming and network protocols.
- Summer 2021
- Software Developer at Hasselt University, Hasselt
- I worked on a testing framework for testing web applications using QUIC. This work was used in a paper titled Vegvisir: A testing framework for HTTP/3 media streaming.
- Summer 2020
- Software Developer at Hasselt University, Hasselt
- I worked on a web client with VR capabilities that used MPEG-DASH to stream the resources of the virtual environment to the user. This work was used in a paper titled Adaptive Web-Based VR Streaming of Multi-LoD 3D Scenes via Author-Provided Relevance Scores.
Education
- Master of Science (2022)
- Hasselt University Computer Science
- Networking and Security
- Thesis: Real-Time Analytics of Concurrent Adaptive Video Streams using Next-Generation Protocols
- Advisors: prof. dr. Peter Quax, dr. Maarten Wijnants, Joris Herbots
- Bachelor of Science (2020)
- Hasselt University Computer Science
- Thesis: Adaptive Streaming of 3D Scenes over MPEG-DASH
- Advisors: prof. dr. Peter Quax, dr. Maarten Wijnants, Hendrik Lievens
- High School (2016)
- Campus De Wingerd Latin - Maths/Sciences
Publications
2023
- A Holistic Approach to Understand HTTP Adaptive Streaming
- M Vandersanden
- Proceedings of the 14th Conference on ACM Multimedia Systems, 333-337
- doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3587819.3593026
- Vegvisir: A testing framework for HTTP/3 media streaming
- J Herbots, M Vandersanden, P Quax, W Lamotte
- Proceedings of the 14th Conference on ACM Multimedia Systems, 403-409
- doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3587819.3592550
2021
- Adaptive Web-Based VR Streaming of Multi-LoD 3D Scenes via Author-Provided Relevance Scores
- H Lievens, M Wijnants, M Vandersanden, P Quax, W Lamotte
- 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Lisbon, Portugal, 2021, pp. 488-489
- doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00126
Open Source
- Vegvisir
- An open-source testing framework for web applications using QUIC.
- Git: https://github.com/JorisHerbots/vegvisir
- A testing framework that uses Docker to create client-server communication.
- Traffic goes through a shaper that introduces network conditions, e.g., latency and loss.
- Multiple tests can be run sequentially.
- All output and logs are stored.
Skills and Interests
- Full Stack Development
- Familiar with front-end frameworks (Vue)
- Proficient with containers and virtual machines (Docker, VMware)
- Primary programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C++, Go
- Networking and Security
- HTTP Adaptive Streaming has been a main research topic
- Transport protocols, such as QUIC and TCP, have been secondary research topics
- Proficient with Linux systems
- Competent with various networking tools (Wireshark, dig, traceroute)
Honors and Awards
- 2022
- Finalist at Cyber Security Challenge Belgium
- Battled in the following rounds:
- Online qualifiers (CTF) [250+ teams]
- Pre-finals (Security Puzzles) [40 teams]
- Finals day 1 (Harder CTF) [16 teams]
- Finals day 2 (Expert Challenges and CTF) [12 teams]
- 2021
- Finalist at Cyber Security Challenge Belgium
- Battled in the following rounds:
- Online qualifiers (CTF) [225+ teams]
- Pre-finals (Security Puzzles) [60 teams]
- Finals day 1 (Harder CTF) [24 teams]
- Finals day 2 (Expert Challenges) [12 teams]
- 2020
- Finalist at Cyber Security Challenge Belgium
- Battled in the following rounds:
- Online qualifiers [200+ teams]
Languages
English (Full Professional)
Dutch (Native)
French (Elementary)