Biography
Hi ! My name is Hugo (pronounced Ügo for german speakers), I’m from Belgium, but probably not the bit you are thinking of. I grew up next to Luxembourg and France, and so actually not that far from Saarland. My native language is thus French, but I hope to become trillingual by the time I finish my PhD !
After getting a master’s degree in Sciences Informatiques at the University of Namur, I decided to pursue a computer graphics career, and end up, naturally, working on compilers. Any jokes aside, I do enjoy what I do very much, I work on the AnyDSL research project and more generally (optimising) compilers and programming models, but still with the perspective of computer graphics. I also have an interest acceleration structures, which were the topic of my master thesis.
Outside of typical computer-related interests, I have an interest in the automotive world, including classic, obscure or modified cars, and working on them myself.
Publications
No More Shading Languages: Compiling C++ to Vulkan SPIR-V
@inproceedings{devillers2025vcc,
author = {Devillers, Hugo and Kurtenacker, Matthias and Membarth, Richard and Lemme, Stefan and Kenzel, Michael and Yazici, Ömercan and Slusallek, Philipp},
address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
booktitle = {Symposium Papers of the High-Performance Graphics (HPG)},
title = {No More Shading Languages: Compiling {C++} to {Vulkan} {SPIR-V}},
pages = {1--10},
year = 2025,
month = jun,
date = {2025-06-23/2025-06-25},
doi = {10.2312/hpg.20251167},
organization = {The Eurographics Association},
}
AnyQ: An Evaluation Framework for Massively-Parallel Queue Algorithms
@inproceedings{kenzel2023anyq,
author = {Kenzel, Michael and Lemme, Stefan and Membarth, Richard and Kurtenacker, Matthias and Devillers, Hugo and Steinberger, Markus and Slusallek, Philipp},
address = {St. Petersburg, FL, USA},
title = {{AnyQ}: An Evaluation Framework for Massively-Parallel Queue Algorithms},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Parallel \& Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)},
pages = {736--745},
year = 2023,
month = may,
date = {2023-05-15/2023-05-19},
doi = {10.1109/IPDPS54959.2023.00079},
organization = {IEEE}
}
