Jacques Klein

Prof. Dr. Jacques Klein is a Chief Scientist (Full Professor) and Co-head of the TruX Research Group at the SnT Centre (Security and Trust Centre) of the University of Luxembourg. With a career spanning over 15 years at the university, he has progressed from Research Scientist (2010-2015) to Senior Research Scientist (2015-2019), Associate Professor (2019-2022), and finally to Full Professor in 2023.

His research focuses on three main areas: program analysis applied to mobile security, software debugging (particularly bug localization and program repair), and NLP/AI for software engineering. He has supervised numerous PhD students and has acquired over 5 million euros in research funding through projects from the Luxembourg Research Agency, European Commission, and industrial partnerships.

Prof. Klein is an active member of the software engineering research community, serving as General Co-Chair of ASE 2023 and MobileSoft 2025, and as a steering committee member for ISSTA, ASE, and MobileSoft. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the Springer Empirical Software Engineering Journal since 2021.

His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on applying AI and machine learning techniques to software security challenges, particularly in the Android ecosystem, with significant contributions to malware detection, code analysis, and privacy compliance. His work has been recognized with multiple prestigious awards including the ICSE 10-year most influential paper award and the PLDI Most Influential Paper Award.

• Member of the Institut Grand-Ducal - Section des Sciences (since June 2024)
• Principal Investigator on numerous research projects
• Extensive service on program committees for major software engineering conferences

He teaches courses on static program analysis, software vulnerabilities, and security analysis at the Master's level, and has made significant contributions to the Android research community through the AndroZoo dataset containing over 24 million Android applications.