Professor
Université catholique de Louvain UCL, Belgium
Email: peter.vanroy@uclouvain.be
Homepage: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/cvvanroy.html
Research Interests
Distributed computing; programming languages; online education; edge computing; complex systems; constraint programming
Short Bio
Peter Van Roy is professor in the ICTEAM Institute at the Université catholique de Louvain since 1996, where he heads the Programming Languages and Distributed Computing Research Group. He has an Engineering degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1983), a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (1990), and a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from the Université Paris Diderot (1996). He coordinated the European project SELFMAN on self management of large-scale systems and was partner in the projects MANCOOSI, EVERGROW, PEPITO, and CoreGRID. He is a developer of the Mozart Programming System and coauthor of a well-known textbook on computer programming. He teaches two MOOCS on computer programming in the edX platform. He is currently partner in the SyncFree project (syncfree.lip6.fr), which is building systems for large-scale computation without synchronization.