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Stéphane Ducasse
Google Scholar ID: 7fHNqtoAAAAJ
INRIA Research Director
software maintenance
program analysis
dynamic language
reflective programming
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Citations
3,237
H-index
26
i10-index
82
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
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stephane.ducasse@inria.fr
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Publications
4 items
It's Alive! What a Live Object Environment Changes in Software Engineering Practice
2026
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Migrating Esope to Fortran 2008 using model transformations
2026
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Package-Aware Approach for Repository-Level Code Completion in Pharo
arXiv.org · 2026
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Meta-compilation of Baseline JIT Compilers with Druid
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming · 2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Google Scholar h-index: 61
Laureate of 'Prix FIEEC Bpifrance de la Recherche appliquée 2023'
ECOOP 2023 Test of Time Award for 'Traits: Composable Units of Behavior'
Most Influential Paper Award at Vissoft 2013 for 'Performance Evolution Blueprint'
Recipient of ERC-Generator grant under France’s 'Programmes d'Investissements d’Avenir' (only CS researcher awarded)
Promoted to First-Class Directeur de Recherche in December 2012
Received INRIA 'Prime d'excellence scientifique' in 2016
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (2011)
PhD theses of Michele Lanza (2003) and Alexandre Bergel (2006) won the Ernest Denert Foundation Award for Software Engineering
Best Paper Award at VISSOFT'22 for 'A New Generation of Class Blueprint'
Paper 'Interpreter-guided Differential JIT Compiler Unit Testing' accepted at PLDI'22
Paper on 'rotten green tests' accepted at ICSE 2019
'Dynamic web development with Seaside' won ESUG Best Book Award 2010
'Learning Programming with Robots' received PCPlus Magazine Award (2005) and Bitwise Recommended Award (2006)
Research Experience
Research Director at INRIA Lille since September 2007
Leads the RMoD team
Co-directed the Software Composition Group with O. Nierstrasz for 10 years
President of the European Smalltalk User Group (ESUG)
Co-founded Synectique, a company offering specialized software analysis tools
Delivered Master Classes on Pharo for Inria Academy and Inria Chile
Program Committee Chair of the International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR)
Miscellany
Pharo has approximately 10,000 users and is taught in 30–40 universities worldwide
Pharo GitHub repository has ~250 forks, with 790 packages, 10,658 classes, and 143,420 methods
Runs on 11 platforms and multiple 32/64-bit architectures (Intel/ARM)
Maintained by ~18 regular and up to 100 occasional contributors
Supported by an industrial Pharo Consortium
Co-authors
35 total
Co-author 1
Nicolas Anquetil
EVREF team / Inria & University of Lille
Serge Demeyer
University of Antwerp
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Co-author 5
Michele Lanza
Software Institute @ University of Lugano | Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
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