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, Since the 15^th of June 2008, I am associate professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering of École Polytechnique de Montréal after having been assistant and associate professor in the software engineering laboratory of the department of computer science and operations research at the university of Montréal. Since the 1^st of June 2009, I am Canada Research Chair Tier II in Software Patterns and Patterns of Software.

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.
      Associate professor
      Ptidej Team

      Postal address:
      Département de génie informatique et génie logiciel
      École Polytechnique de Montréal
      CP 6079 succ. Centre Ville
      Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7
      Canada

      Civic address:
      Local: M-4103
      Pavillon Lassonde
      2700, chemin de la Tour
      Montréal, Québec, H3T 1J4
      Canada

      Tel: 1-514-340-4711 #7116
      Fax: 1-514-340-5139
      E-mail: yann-gael.gueheneuc <at> polymtl <dot> ca

Here is a short bio. and a resume: Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc is associate professor at the Department of computing and software engineering of Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal where he leads the Ptidej team on evaluating and enhancing the quality of object-oriented programs by promoting the use of patterns, at the language-, design-, or architectural-levels. In 2009, he was awarded the NSERC Research Chair Tier II on Software Patterns and Patterns of Software. 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 OTI Labs.), where he worked in 1999 and 2000. His research interests are program understanding and program quality during development and maintenance, in particular through the use and the identification of recurring patterns. He was the first to use explanation-based constraint programming in the context of software engineering to identify occurrences of patterns. He is interested also in empirical software engineering; he uses eye-trackers to understand and to develop theories about program comprehension. He has published many papers in international conferences and journals.