Jonas Sys

aka jay-tux

PhD Student (Computer Science)
TOPL Lab, Department WINST, Faculty of Sciences, UGent and
DisCo Group, SOFT Lab, Sciences & Bioengineering Sciences Faculty, VUB

jonas.sys@ugent.be jay-tux

Current project: Phoenix, a data-parallel programming language

News

• ASPLOS/EuroSys’20
  March 30 - April 3, 2025
  I presented a talk titled Modular Data and Parallelization Abstractions for Programming Heterogeneous Systems at EuroDW’25 in Rotterdam, and stayed for the full conference.
  
• PLISS’25
  May 26 - May 31, 2025
  I attended the summer school in Bertinoro! This was followed by a short trip to Firenze/Florence, Muenchen/Munich, and Ravenstein.

Publications

Coming soon!

Teaching

• Software Engineering Lab 1 (Teaching Assistant)
  Semester: Spring 2025
  Description: A project-oriented course meant to teach students to work in a professional setting, by building a mobile app.

• Foundations of Programming Languages (Teaching Assistant)
  Semester: Fall 2025
  Description: A course in formalization, teaching students to reason formally about programming languages and the use of the Rocq theorem prover.

Education

• PhD Student (Computer Science)
  October 2024 - present
  UGent and VUB
  Supervised by both Christophe Scholliers (UGent) and Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB)

• Master of Computer Science graduated magna cum laude
  September 2022 - June 2024
  UGent
  Thesis: Quantifying and Mitigating the Cold-Start Problem in GPU Simulation ( LaTeX source)

  • Erasmus International Exchange
    September 2022 - June 2023
    Aarhus University
    Focused on program verification and algorithms

• Bachelor of Computer Science graduated cum laude
  September 2019 - June 2022
  UGent

Projects

Coming soon!

But if you’re really curious - check out Grader and SIMD-API…