Jean-Marc Jézéquel is a Professor at the University of Rennes and a member of the DiverSE team at IRISA/Inria. He currently serves as Vice President of Informatics Europe (since 2021) and as a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) (since September 2023). Previously, he was the Director of IRISA, one of the largest public research labs in Informatics in France, from 2012 to 2020, and was an invited professor at McGill University in 2022. His educational background includes an engineering degree from Telecom Bretagne in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Rennes in 1989. Jean-Marc Jézéquel's research focuses on Software Engineering , particularly Model Driven Engineering (MDE) , Software Variability , and Performance Modeling . His work addresses the challenges of software complexity and variability, including the impact of deep variability on performance modeling and the application of machine learning to model-based software development. He has authored 4 books and over 300 publications in international journals and conferences. He has received several prestigious awards, including the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016, the IEEE/ACM MODELS Career Award in 2020, and was elected as a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2023. In editorial roles, he serves as Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Computer and the Journal on Software and System Modeling, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal on Software and Systems and the Journal of Object Technology. He has also been a member of the steering committees for the AOSD and MODELS conference series.



