Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

Jean-Marc Jézéquel is a French

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

. Professionally, Jean-Marc Jézéquel worked as a computer scientist at the

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, France. His research contributions have laid the foundations of the theory of Model-driven architecture. From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of IRISA and then President of

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Education and academic career

Jean-Marc Jézéquel received an engineering degree from Telecom Bretagne in 1986 and a

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from the

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in 1989. He then worked for the Transpac (network) company on an Intelligent Network project. In 1991, he became a researcher (Chargé de recherche) at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). During most of 1996, he has been an invited researcher in Pr. Yonezawa's lab, in the

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. Since October 2000, he has been Professor of Software Engineering at

, where he pursued research on the foundations of Model Driven Engineering. From 2000 to 2012 he headed an

Inria The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

research team called Triskell. From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of IRISA, a 800 people public research lab in informatics. From January 2021 to December 2023, he was Vice President of

, before becoming its President since 2024. In 2016 he received the Silver Medal from CNRS. In 2020, he received the Career Award from the IEEE/ACM Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems conference, which recognizes his long-standing scientific contributions to the MDE community and his exemplary activity for the younger members of the MODELS community. From January 2022 to April 2022, he was a visiting professor at

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. In 2023 he has been appointed as a fellow of the

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Publications

Books, a selection * ''Engineering Modeling Languages: Turning Domain Knowledge into Tools'', CRC Press, 2016. * ''Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles : des concepts à la pratique'', Éditions Ellipses, 2012 * ''Design Patterns and Contracts'', Addison-Wesley, 1999 * ''Object Oriented Software Engineering with Eiffel'', Addison-Wesley, 1996 Articles, a selection: * Design by contract: The lessons of Ariane, with

Bertrand Meyer Bertrand Meyer (; ; born 21 November 1950) is a French academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language and the concept of design by contract. Education and academic career Meyer ...

, 1997 * Making components contract aware, Computer 32 (7), 1999 * Refactoring UML models, UML 2001 * Weaving executability into object-oriented meta-languages, MODELS 2005 * Automatic test generation: A use case driven approach IEEE Trans on Software Engineering, 2006 * Models at runtime to support dynamic adaptation, Computer 42 (10), 2009

Notes and references

External links

JM Jézéquel's web page
Living people French computer scientists 1964 births {{France-compu-bio-stub