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Biography
I am currently an Associate Professor at the University of Lille and I’m part of the RMoD team led by Stéphane Ducasse. My current research interests are focused on dynamic object-oriented languages and the Pharo language, debugging and interoperability between dynamic languages.
Before this position, I was R&D project manager at Axellience, startup created in 2012 by Alexis Muller and editor of the GenMyModel platform. I was conducting research related to Model Driven Engineering and language engineering. More specifically, I was working on heterogeneous model repositories, collaboration, architecture modernization using backward/forward engineering, and MDE scalability in the Cloud.
From 2011 to 2012, I had a one-year position as researcher/lecturer at the University of Technology of Lille 1 (IUT) where I worked with Anne Etien on automatic model transformation chaining using static analysis and product lines. Before that, I obtained a PhD degree from the University of Lille 1 in the DaRT research team at INRIA Lille with Anne Etien and Professor Jean-Luc Dekeyser where I worked on model debugging/profiling and MDE compilation chain debugging, using traceability.
During my “young ages”, I worked on the relationship between metamodel and UML profile in the MACAO team from the IRIT under the direction of the Professor Christian Percebois. I also briefly worked on formal verification of a Signal to C compiler under supervision of Martin Strecker in the ACADIE team at IRIT.
Interests
- Language Engineering
- Debugging
- Virtual Machine
- Reflection
- Software Engineering
- Model Driven Engineering
- Domain-Specific Languages
Education
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PhD in Computer Sciences, 2011
University of Lille, Lille, France
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MEng in Computer Sciences, 2008
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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BSc in Computer Sciences, 2006
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Teaching
You can find different resources I use for my classes here: Teaching Resources. Here is the different classes I taught since 2008:
- University of Lille:
- Functionnal Programming
- Operating System Architecture
- Advanced Database
- C Programming
- Software Engineering
- Programming paradigms
- Low-Level Architecture
- Metamodeling
- Polytech’Lille
- Model Driven Engineering
- Advanced C Programming
- System Programming
- Language & Compiler
- Computer/System Architecture
- Low-Level Architecture
- Shell Programming
- IUT of Lille:
- Computer Architecture/Assembly Programming
- C Programming
- Advanced Data Structures
- Computer Sciences Basics
Projects
- GenMyModel: MDE for and in the Cloud, online collaborative modeler and MDE tools in the Cloud, project I worked on during my years as a R&D project manager.
- Geppetto: MDE based engine and simulator for biological system modeling for the OpenWorm project
- Gaspard: modeling, simulation and code generation of SoC applications and hardware architectures.
Softwares
- PyBridge: a bridge between Pharo and Python that let you call Python libraries through a Pharo-ish syntaxe without code generation and relying on reflexion. This project also includes an experimental “bi-directionnal” bridge letting you call Pharo from Python in a pythonic way, passing Pharo objects to Python and Pharo objects to Python in a transparent way.
- PyEcore: a Python implementation of the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF/Ecore). This implementation is compatible with the Java version through XMI and JSON export. This implementation is used to explore contributions of dynamic languages for MDE: @runtime behavior, model-to-model transformation, code generation, parsing and bridge between textual syntaxes, self-modifying metamodels.
- pygeppetto: Python implementation of the Geppetto metamodel for biological modeling.
- GenMyModel: the first online collaborative MDE platform.
- Catsoolang: a dynamically typed DSL for rapid model scripting (integrated in GenMyModel). This DSL is a first step in the use and exploration of dynamic languages for MDE. The DSL supports adhoc polymorphic (function overloading), type constraints/bounds, and can be executed in collaborative modeling sessions.
- Acceleo Editor: online Acceleo editor with smart auto-completion and type checking (integrated in GenMyModel). The type checking and the auto-completion are performed directly in the browser in order to reduce communications with the server side.
- Java EL Editor: online code editor with smart auto-completion (integrated in GenMyModel). As Java EL is dynamically typed, a partial evaluation algorithm with type inference capability is executed in order to give smart auto-completion and type checking.
- Antlr4-GWT: a GWT port of the Antlr4 parser generator. The project gives the ability to generate parser that can be integrated in-the-browser without communication with a server.
Publications
Services
Academic and Administrative
- Reviewer for the journal IEEE Software: Collaborative Modeling in Software Engineering
- PC Member for:
- CommitMDE 2016
- CommitMDE 2017
- CommitMDE 2018
- CommitMDE 2019 (Cancelled)
- Tools & Demo at MoDELS18
- IWST18
- IWST19
- Subreviewer for:
- journal: ISI, special edition: “Développement des Systèmes d’Information à base de modèles : exigences, traçabilité et co-conception”
- conferences & workshops: ECMFA'10, ECMFA'11, ECMFA'12, GTTSE'12, INFORSID'12
- From 2012, redaction of yearly reports for French national Research tax credit
- Participating to the organization of the “journées IDM & GDR-GPL 2011”
- Participating to the organization of the DSD/SEAA 2010 conference
Experience
Associate Professor
University of Lille
Teaching at University of Lille and Polytech’lille and researcher in the RMoD team led by Stéphane Ducasse:
- Dynamic object-oriented languages
- Debugging
- Interoperability between dynamic languages
R&D project manager
Axellience/GenMyModel
Research and work on:
- Model Driven Engineering (MDE)
- Heretogeneous models repositories
- MDE in the Cloud
- Language engineering
One-year position as researcher/lecturer
University of Technology of Lille (IUT)
Worked with Anne Etien on:
- Automatic model transformation chaining using static analysis
- Product lines for model transformation chains
PhD student
University of Lille
Worked in the DaRT research team at INRIA Lille with Anne Etien and Professor Jean-Luc Dekeyser on:
- Model debugging/profiling
- MDE compilation chain debugging
- Model transformation traceability