Mike Vandersanden

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💻 Computer Science PhD Student @ Digital Future Lab, Hasselt University

🏴‍☠️ Capture The Flag (UHCTF)

🤾‍♂️ Handball

🏠 Limburg, Belgium

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.
2022-Present: Organizer for UHCTF, Hasselt; Organizing the Hasselt Univeristy Capture The Flag event, a homegrown cyber security competition.; Designing challenges, supporting student volunteers, technical support during event.
2024: Pulse Research Fellow, Internet Society; Developing a Holistic approach to measuring Internet Outages
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.

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

Tailored Anomaly Detection: M Vandersanden and coauthors; Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies Networks (ANT); doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2026.04.037

A Holistic Approach to Understand HTTP Adaptive Streaming: M Vandersanden, J Beerts, H Kreitem, A Phokeer, W Lamotte, P Quax; 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

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

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.

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)

2020-2022: Finalist at Cyber Security Challenge Belgium; 2022: 8th place, Finals [12 teams]; 2021: Finals [12 teams]; 2020: Finals [43 teams]

English (Full Professional)

Dutch (Native)

French (Elementary)