Arnaud Blouin
Associate Professor
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolArnaud Blouin is an associate professor and habilitated researcher in software engineering at INSA Rennes and a member of Inria’s DiverSE team, with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and industry consulting. His work focuses on user interface engineering and model‑driven engineering, combining theoretical rigor with practical tool-building—evidenced by contributions to the INRIA/spoon metaprogramming library, including AST visualization and robustness fixes for Java source analysis. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and an habilitation to supervise research, and he teaches software engineering while collaborating with French companies to transfer research into practice. Known for pragmatic, code-centric research, he often brings advanced static analysis and model techniques to real-world UI and development tooling challenges.
14 years of coding experience
Habilitation à diriger des recherches (habilitation), Computer Science, Habilitation à diriger des recherches (habilitation), Computer Science at Université de Rennes IPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Université d'AngersD.U.T. (Academic Degree of Technology), Computer Science, D.U.T. (Academic Degree of Technology), Computer Science at Université de Bordeaux
Github Skills (10)
astm10
javas10
metaprogramming10
code-transformation10
code-analysis10
spoon10
java10
abstract-syntax-tree9
parserator9
parser9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
INRIA/spoon
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Spoon is a metaprogramming library to analyze and transform Java source code. :spoon: is made with :heart:, :beers: and :sparkles:. It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 32 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Arnaud primarily contributed to enhancing the `spoon` library, focusing on implementing new features and improving existing functionalities. They introduced methods to check for the presence of methods within classes, improving the AST analysis capabilities. The user also addressed a bug related to the pretty printer, ensuring correct handling of imports and parentheses in ternary expressions. Furthermore, they added features like a Spoon AST visualisation tool, improving the debugging and code understanding experience of the tool.
inriacode-generationheartastparser
interacto/research
Jan 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
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