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Raphaël Monat is a Research Scientist in the SyCoMoRES team at Inria Lille since September 2022, with an affiliation at the University of Lille. His work focuses on formal methods and static program analysis, with particular applications to computational law and realistic software systems. He is one of the core maintainers of the Mopsa static analysis framework and has developed tools for analyzing the French tax code.
Monat holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Sorbonne Université, advised by Antoine Miné, where he worked on the static analysis of Python and Python+C programs within the ERC MOPSA project. Prior to his position at Inria, he completed research internships at MPI-SWS in Saarbrücken, University of Oxford, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
His primary research interest lies in improving software quality through automated program verification, with a focus on making static analysis applicable to realistic systems. Monat has a particular interest in computational law, especially the implementation of tax and benefit systems. He is currently developing formal methods tools for Catala, a domain-specific language for legislative texts, in collaboration with Aymeric Fromherz. His work emphasizes the practical application of theoretical concepts in abstract interpretation to real-world problems.
Monat's publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on advancing static analysis techniques, particularly for Python and C programs, and applying them to computational law. His recent work shows an increasing emphasis on compositional analysis, concolic execution for legal computations, and improving the maintainability of academic static analyzers. The integration of formal methods with legislative implementations represents a distinctive thread throughout his research career.
- SV-Comp 2025 Silver Medal in "Software Systems" category
- Amazon Research Award, Fall 2024
- ETAPS 2024 best tool paper award
- SV-Comp 2024 Gold Medal
- SV-Comp 2023 Bronze Medal
- ECOOP 2023 Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award
- SOAP 2020 Best Presentation Award
Monat actively mentors students, currently supervising two PhD candidates (Milla Valnet and Pierre Goutagny) and having previously guided several Master's students. He has secured significant funding for his research, including an ANR Young Researcher Grant for the RAISIN project on Resource-Aware Conservative Static Analysis starting in Fall 2024, and the Inria-AEx AVoCAT project for Automated Verification of Catala programs.
Monat is a core contributor to the Mopsa static analysis platform, which has achieved notable success in the Software Verification Competition (SV-Comp). He also co-developed Mlang, a modern compiler for the French tax code that is being transitioned to production use by the French tax administration. His work bridges theoretical formal methods with practical applications in public administration.
