Steven Costiou
Scholar

Steven Costiou

Google Scholar ID: KLPmm0gAAAAJ
EVREF, INRIA
Software engineeringprogram comprehensionreflectionobject-centric debuggingtime-travel
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
129
 
H-index
7
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
14
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Awards:
  • - Innovation technology award (3rd place): The Pharo Debugger and Debugging Tools (2023)
  • - Innovation technology award (1st place): Time-Traveling Queries for Faster Debugging (2022)
  • - Best poster award: Time-Traveling Queries for Faster Debuggign and Program Comprehension (2022)
  • - Best paper award finalist: 15 years of reuse experience in evolutionary prototyping for the defense industry (2020)
Research Experience
  • Projects:
  • - Object-Centric Debugging Reloaded (2022 - 2026), Funding: 173,000 euros.
  • Working Groups:
  • - Leader of the DevX working group of the CNRS GDR GPL (2025 - ...)
  • - Leader of the GT Debugging working group of the CNRS GDR GPL (2020 - 2025)
  • - Co-leader of the Inria Northern Europe Associated Team: Advanced debugging (2020 - 2022)
  • Collaborations:
  • - With RelationalAI (2024 - ...)
  • - With CIRAD (2024 - ...)
  • - With Inria Rennes and University of Nantes (2021 - ...)
  • - With École de Technologie Supérieure - ÉTS (Canada) (2020 - ...)
  • - With University of Zurich, Switzerland (2020 - ...)
  • - With Thales DMS, Brest (2017 - 2024)
Background
  • Research Interests: Debugging, Live Debugging, Object-Centric Debugging, Time-travel Debugging, Scriptable Debuggers, Dynamic Languages, Reflection, Software Adaptation, Object-Oriented Systems, Software Engineering. Brief: Research scientist at Inria in the EVREF team, member of the CRIStAL laboratory (UMR CNRS 9189). Research, design, and build new debugging tools to help developers understand their software.
Miscellany
  • Position:
  • - Research scientist at Inria
  • - Position equivalent to an associate professor with very limited teaching duties