My name is Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. I am born in Nantes (Brittany) in France in 1975. The 23^rd of June 2003, I obtained my Ph.D. thesis in software rengineering at the École des Mines of Nantes (university of Nantes) under Professor Pierre Cointe's supervision. This thesis was financed by Object Technology International Inc., a Canada-based IT company, which develops, among others, Visual Age for Smalltalk and for Java, Visual Age Micro Edition, and the Eclipse platform. Since the 1^st of September, I am assistant professor in the software engineering laboratory of the department of computer science and operations research at the university of Montréal.

My research interests lie within the area of software engineering: Object-oriented software maintenance; Design pattern definition, use, and identification; Use of visualization techniques, such as adjacency matrices, and AI-related techniques, such as explanation-based constraint programming, to improve program understanding.

You can reach me at the following coordinates:

      Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Ph.D.
      Assistant professor
      Software engineering laboratory

      Postal address:
      Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
      University of Montreal
      CP 6128 succ. Centre Ville
      Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7
      Canada

      Civic address:
      Room: 2345
      Pavillon André Aisenstadt
      2920, chemin de la Tour
      Montréal, Québec, H3T 1J4
      Canada

      Tel: 1-514-343-6782
      Fax: 1-514-343-5834
      E-mail: guehene <at> iro <dot> umontreal <dot> ca

Here is a short bio. and a resume: Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc is assistant professor at the Department of Informatics and Operations Research (software engineering group), University of Montreal, since September 2003. He leads the Ptidej Team, which develops the Ptidej tool suite to evaluate and enhance the quality of object-oriented programs by promoting the use of patterns. He holds a Ph.D. in software engineering from University of Nantes, France (under Professor Pierre Cointe's supervision) since 2003 and an Engineering Diploma from École des Mines of Nantes since 1998. His Ph.D. thesis was funded by Object Technology International, Inc. (now IBM OTT Labs.), where he worked in 1999 and 2000. His research interests are program understanding and program quality during development and maintenance, in particular through reverse engineering and the identification of recurring patterns. He is also interested in empirical software engineering and in software laws and theories. He has published several papers in international journals and conferences, including CSMR, ICSM, OOPSLA, TSE, and WCRE. He was in the organising and/or program committees of several conferences, including ECOOP, ICPC, ICSM, LMO, QAOOSE, WCRE, WOOR.