CV
EDUCATION
2004 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) – Université de Rennes 1, France
1994 – 1997 Ph.D. Computer Science (software engineering) - Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble, (INPG) France
1991 – 1994 M.Sc. Computer Engineering with honours (Mention Bien) - Diplôme d’Etude Approfondie – Recherche (DEA), INPG, France
Software engineering degree. ENSIMAG, INPG, France
CURRENT POSITION
2009 + Professor of Computer Science – Software Engineering - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Head of the “Security, Reasoning and Validation” (SerVal) group, member of SnT Management board
2020+ Vice-director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2006 – 2009 Professor of Computer Science - Telecom Bretagne engineering school, Rennes France
2004– 2006 Researcher in Model-driven engineering (Engineer)- at France Télécom R&D, Lannion, France
2002– 2004 Research scientist (delegation)- INRIA Bretagne Atlantique – Rennes, France
1998– 2002 Associate Professor of Computer Science (maître de conférences) - University of Rennes, France
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020 Best Paper award - KDD Health Day (AI and Covid-19)
2019 Distinguished Paper award – ACM ESEC-FSE 2019
Facebook Testing and Verification 2019 - Research Award.
Distinguished artifact award – “semantic fuzzing with zest” – ISSTA 2019
2018 Francqui Chair award – University of Namur, Belgium – “Preventive debugging” (one award for all disciplines, granted once every 5 years by Univ. of Namur).
2018 top-15 most impactful experienced SE researchers (special issue of Journal of Systems and Software)
2013 Google Faculty Research Award – “Plotting a Map of Android Inter-App Communications” – 2012- 24 months-2013
2011 Ten Year most Influential Paper Award - IEEE/ACM MODELS 2011
1999-2018 Best papers IEEE ISSRE 1999, IEEE/ACM UML 2001, IEEE/ACM UML 2003, IEEE ISSRE 2008, AFADL 2010, Mutation 2012, SEKE 2014, SANER-ERA 2016, SoSym journal 2018, ISSTA 2019 (artefact), ACM ESEC-FSE 2019.
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
SerVal group/ Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)/University of Luxembourg/Luxembourg
Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia (RSM)/Telecom Bretagne engineering school/Rennes/France
Équipe projet mixte INRIA Triskell/Université de Rennes 1/Rennes/France
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
1999–2006 7 PhD students graduated/ 11 Master Students
2006–2009 3 PhD students graduated/ 4 Master Students
2009–2020 21 Postdocs/ 20 PhD students graduated/ 12 Master Students
Summary: Main topics: software engineering, software security, software testing, software modelling
Currently: director of studies of two Master programs (Master in Mgt of Information System Security - MSSI) and e-DVL. Average of 120 hours in-person teaching per year.
2013+ joint creation of an e-learning master program with University of Franche Comté/France – Master en Développement et Validation des Logiciels (e-DVL)
2000+ creation of a DESS on Software engineering (equ. Master)/University of Rennes
since 2000: creation of 18 full courses with practicals. Various professional courses for companies (Thales, Alcatel-Lucent, CSSF)
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
Overall: creation of three international workshops (SecTest, Modevva, VAST), and co-founder of one IEEE Int. Conference (ICST).
2021 General co-Chair of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
2016 Program Chair of QRS 2016 Conf. (IEEE International Conf. on Software Quality, Reliability and Security)
2013 General Chair of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2013), Luxembourg, March 2013.
2008+ Co-founder of ICST -Steering committee of the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST).
2004 General Chair of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2004).
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2020+ Vice-director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
Member of the digital strategy and deep dive research working groups, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017+ Board of the doctoral school of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg
2013 –2016 Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg
2013 – 2016 Member of the Faculty Council, University of Luxembourg
2009+ Member of the Management Board of the SnT
2006-2009 Founder and head of the SerVal.v1 group at Telecom Bretagne
1999 Co-founder of Triskell INRIA team (head: Prof. Jézéquel, 2000-2014), IRISA, Rennes, France
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2020 International Referee in the field of Computer Science (Division II) - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - Switzerland’s foremost research funding agency
2016+ Editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability journal
2011+ Editorial board of STVR Journal (Software Testing, Validation and Verification)
20014+ Editorial board of SoSym journal (Software and Systems Modeling journal)
PC member since 2010
ICSE (2021, 2018, 2014) , ICST (2010-2012, 2013-2017, 2019-2021), ISSTA (2017, 2019, 2020), ICSE NIER (2012-2013), ICSE-SEIP (2015, 2016, 2019), ASE (2018), Modelsward (2020), MobileSoft (2016-2019), Codaspy (2016-2019), QRS (2017-2019), MODELS (2013-2016), ESSOS 2015, , AFADL (2010-2015), COMPSAC (2014,2015), FASE (2014), SAC-SVT (2012-18), ICWS (2013, 2015,2016, 2019), FSE (2013), QSIC (2012,2013), AST(2013-2017) ISSRE (2013), ICPE (2012), SDL (2011).
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES: IEEE Computer Society (Senior member)
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
With industry: PayPal, BGL BNP PARIBAS, Google, Facebook, CREOS, Cebi, POST-Luxembourg, Paul Wurth, THALES.
With academia: Prof. Koushik Sen (University of California Berkeley, USA), Prof. Eric Bodden (Univ. of Paderborn, Germany), Prof. Jean-Marc Jézéquel (Univ. of Rennes 1, France).