Yann-gaël Guéhéneuc
Full Professor at Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolYann-Gaël Guéhéneuc is a full professor of software engineering at Concordia University and leader of the Ptidej team, with a career spanning academic posts in Canada and research visits across Korea and Japan. He specializes in program understanding and software quality, pioneering the use of explanation-based constraint programming to detect recurring patterns and using eye-tracking for empirical studies of program comprehension. His work bridges theory and practice—earlier industry-funded research at IBM/OTI informed his PhD and ongoing investigations into IoT, testing, release processes, and security. An IEEE Senior Member and two-time NSERC Tier II Research Chair awardee, he is also experienced in organizing leading conferences (ICSM, SANER, APSEC) and publishing in top venues like IEEE TSE and ICSE. Less obvious: he maintains hands-on curiosity about legacy platforms (Amiga) and mixed-language systems, reflecting both deep historical knowledge and a talent for cross-language pattern analysis.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at IMT AtlantiqueUniversité de Montréal
French
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
data-protection10
chat10
slack10
webrtc10
meteor10
communications10
collaboration10
design-patterns8
moose8
bootstrap8
idioms7
smalltalk7
static-analysis7
antipatterns7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ptidejteam/ptidej-Ptidej
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
The Ptidej tool suite to evaluate and enhance the quality of object-oriented programs, promoting the use of patterns, at the language-, design-, or architectural-levels
Contributions:2 releases, 17 reviews, 23 PRs in 11 months
antipatternsarchiectural-stylesdesign-patternsdynamic-analysisidioms
ptidejteam/v5.2
Jul 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:38 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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