Current responsibilities

Since September 2007, I'm a research director at INRIA Lille. I led the RMoD Team, and now the EVREF team. During 10 years, I co-directed with O. Nierstrasz the Software Composition Group. I'm the president of ESUG. I co-founded Synectique a company that offered specific tools for Software analysis. I'm one of the leader of Pharo: a new exciting dynamic language. Check the Pharo consortium. Here is a short CV. My ORCID Number is 0000-0001-6070-6599.

Awards and Indexes

Some people consider that h-index is not a good criterion for researcher evaluation. To me this is just one among others. Trying to understand it, it looks like it shows a bit the width of your research (i.e., that several topics got reasonance within a community). Personally, I do not work with this metrics in mind, I just try to publish the best results I have with my co-workers and thank them for their energy. According to google scholar my h-index is 63 (schoolar.g).

Reflection about impact and real users

Some old figures but they illustrate well my point.

This raises the important question of how many citations are worth one real user (not one of our students). I do not have a definitive answer on that point, but it is important to understand that there is a Huge difference between a research prototype and a real system, and Pharo is a real system with real customers. This requires a large development effort. We are lucky because Inria researcher evaluation takes this into account. Now this is an important question for funding agencies and any evaluation of my team.

Reflection about work evaluation

My colleague Anne Etien posted a really good call on linkedIn.
I copy-paste it here literally because this is so true.

Dear colleagues and reviewers,
Please stop reviewing papers submitted to NIER or ERA tracks as if they were submitted to a research track. We can't expect a replication package or a strong empirical evaluation for those papers. The 'E' means Emergent or Early, depending on the case. If the authors have a valid prototype and a strong evaluation, we can be sure they will submit to the main track. We also have to be humble and to accept real early ideas. Similarly, for the industrial track, don't expect an evaluation with hundreds of software systems. Having one with real industrials can already be complex, and applying a research approach for real too.
Please do not mix everything, or let's merge the tracks and keep only the research ones.


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