Roberto Di Cosmo

Roberto Di Cosmo is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot since 1999, currently on leave at Inria. He is a prominent researcher and advocate for Free Software, contributing to its adoption since 1998 through seminars, articles, and software. He co-founded the Software Heritage initiative in 2016, aiming to build a universal archive of publicly available source code, and served as director of IRILL, a research structure dedicated to Free and Open Source Software quality, since 2010.

His research focuses on theoretical computing, including functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, semantics of programming languages, type systems, rewriting, and linear logic. He has led significant projects like the European Mancoosi research initiative, addressing challenges in static analysis of large software collections.

His work with Software Heritage has archived over 3 billion source code files and 700 million commits across 60 million projects. This effort preserves scientific and technological knowledge, enables software reuse, and supports research through a curated archive infrastructure.

Roberto Di Cosmo actively bridges academic research with societal impact, emphasizing the role of software in digital culture and advocating for open knowledge sharing.