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Benoit Verhaeghe - Scientific Projects Manager

My name is Benoit "badetitou" Verhaeghe. I work on migration tools and on tests. You can find all my public projects on Github. I also wrote some short french stories.

TypeScriptAngularRustPharoMooseGWTCSpring
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Experience

  • Berger-Levrault

    https://berger-levrault.com

    Scientific Projects Manager

    Modernizing application

    Manage research projects about

    🌿 GreenIT

    🤖 AI for code

    ⏩ Code migration and modernization

    🧪 Test Generations

    Also Managing a team of 👫 Researchers, Engineers, and PhD students

    Collaborating with several Research labs 👩🔬👨🔬

    And with Industrial Business Units 👨‍💻👩‍💻

  • Research Engineer

    Modernizing application

    • Migrating several applications
    • Manage Ph.D. Students and interns
    • Writing research papers

  • Ph.D. Student

    Modernizing application

    • Migrating GWT application to Angular
    • Set up hybrid architecture
    • Writing research papers
    • Teaching

  • R&D Engineer

    Modernizing application

    • Creation of tools to migrate GWT applications to Angular technology
    • Meta-modeling
    • Code analysis
    • State of the art

  • Inria - RMoD

    https://www.inria.fr/fr/rmod

    Intern

    Testing applications

    • Learning the Pharo programming language
    • Understanding tests selection
    • Developing an automatic tests selection tool
    • Test the tool with the Pharo community
    • Integration of the tool in the Pharo core
    • Writing research paper

Success

2nd & 3rd places for Best Paper Award

2025-07-04 - https://esug.org/2025-Conference/IWST2025.html
Extended Abstract: Migrating Katalon Studio Tests to Playwright with Model Driven Engineering & FASTTypeScript metamodel generation using FAST traits and TreeSitter project

Thesis Open Science Award

2024-11-06 - https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/remise-des-premiers-prix-science-ouverte-de-la-these-97810
The French Minister for Education and Research grant me the Open Science award for my PhD Thesis 'Incremental approach for application GUI migration using metamodels'

3rd place Innovation Award ESUG

2022-07-08 - https://esug.org/2022-Conference/awardsSubmissions.html
Pharo Language Server was elected third at the Innovation Award of ESUG’2022

Best Paper Award

2019-07-08 - http://sattose.org/2019
Migrating GWT to Angular 6 using MDE @ Sattose

2nd place Innovation Award ESUG

2017-09-03 - https://esug.org/2017-Conference/innovationAwards2017.html
SmartTest was elected second at the Innovation Award of ESUG 2017

Education

  • University Of Lille/Inria

    https://www.inria.fr

    Ph.D. Software

    Support for the migration of GWT application to Angular See the professional experience at Berger-Levrault

  • Polytech Lille

    https://www.polytech-lille.fr/

    Software Engineer

    Programming Languages : JAVA - C - PHP - HTML - CSS Linux SQL - POSTGRESQL

  • DUT Informatique

    http://www.iut-a.univ-lille.fr/dut-info/

    Software Technician

    Programming Language : JAVA - C - Cobol - PHP - HTML - CSS Linux : BASH, Apache server SQL - POSTGRESQL