Raphaël Monat
Research Scientist
Inria & University of Lille
I am a research scientist in the SyCoMoRES team at Inria Lille. I hold a Ph.D in computer science, supervised by Antoine Miné.
The aim of my research is to improve the quality of software through the field of formal methods. I aspire to develop and apply methods to the most realistic systems possible.
I previously worked on the static analysis of Python and C programs within the ERC MOPSA project. I am one of the maintainers of the Mopsa static analyzer. I am also interested in the interaction between the law and the code, and I have designed with Denis Merigoux a modern compiler for the French tax code, which is being transferred to the French tax administration.
These days, I am exploring ways to facilitate the adoption of static analysis tools; static analysis of binary code following previous works of my team; and the ongoing application of formal methods to Catala, a domain-specific language for the implementation of legislative texts.
My CV is available in French and in English.
Feel free to send me an email if you are interested in working with me!
News
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Looking forward to giving a tutorial at the Lipari Summer School on Abstract Interpretation.
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"Formalizing Date Arithmetic and Statically Detecting Ambiguities for the Law" has been accepted at ESOP'24. Delighted to announce that this work has been awarded the ETAPS best tool paper!
For our second participation, Mopsa won the gold medal by a long shot in the SoftwareSystems category of SV-Comp. In our first participation, we earned the bronze medal. See more details in our short TACAS paper.
Gave an invited talk at ETAPS' mentoring workshop.
Chairing SOAP@PLDI'24 program committee with Cindy Rubio González.
Chairing ECOOP'24 artifact evaluation committee with Karine Even-Mendoza.
I am honored to have received a Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award at ECOOP'23.
I was invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on Theoretical Advances and Emerging Applications in Abstract Interpretation.
I am a member of the “Source code and software” subgroup from the French Committee for Open Science.
Previous Research Experiences
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Static Type and Value Analysis by Abstract Interpretation of Python Programs with Native C Libraries.
Under the supervision of Antoine Miné - 2018 -- 2021.APR team, LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
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Formal verification of Static Analyses of Floating-point Programs.
Under the supervision of Eva Darulova - February to June 2017.Automated Verification and Approximation team, MPI-SWS, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Black-box Variational Inference in Probabilistic Programming.
Under the supervision of Hongseok Yang - May to July 2016.Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK.
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Abstract Interpretation of Concurrent Programs.
Under the supervision of Antoine Miné - June & July 2015.ANTIQUE Team, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Recent Publications
Recent Talks
Software
I strongly believe that academic prototypes accompanying research papers are important to show that a proposed technique works. I care about improving these prototypes to make them usable tools accessible to others, although it takes a lot of effort.
I am proud to be one of the core contributors of the following software:
Community Service
Program Committee
- SOAP 2024 (chair with Cindy Rubio González)
- JFLA 2024
- SOAP 2023
- SV-Comp 2023
- SAS 2022
External Review Committee
- ECOOP 2023 (rounds 1 & 2)
- SPLASH 2023 (rounds 1 & 2)
- SPLASH 2022 (round 2)
External Review
- LOPSTR 2019
- SOAP 2021
- ACM TECS
- SAS 2021
- Science of Computer Programming
- ATVA 2023
Artifact Evaluation Committee
- ECOOP 2024 (chair with Karine Even-Mendoza)
- ECOOP 2023 (rounds 1 & 2)
- SPLASH 2023 (rounds 1 & 2)
- SPLASH 2022 (round 2)
- PLDI 2022
- CAV 2022
- ECOOP 2021
- PLDI 2021
- POPL 2021
- SAS 2020
Student Volunteering
- POPL 2017
Scientific expertise
- External ANR reviewer in 2023
Some specific French duties
Niveau national
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J’ai été jury en Juin 2023 des oraux d’informatique, sur les concours d’entrées aux Écoles Normales Supérieures via les filières MP et MPI des classes préparatoires.
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Depuis Mars 2022, je suis membre du “collège logiciel” du Comité National pour la Science Ouverte.
Niveau local
- Je participe à la commission parité et égalité femmes-hommes du laboratoire CRIStAL depuis janvier 2023.
- Je suis membre suppléant de la FSS de l’Inria Lille (Formation Spécialisée de Site, ex CLHSCT), depuis janvier 2023.
Students
Current students
- Milla Valnet, PhD student (since Sep. 2023), co-advised by Antoine Miné.
- Pierre Goutagny, M2 intern (Oct. 2023 – March 2024), co-advised by Aymeric Fromherz.
Past students
- Andrei Florea, PhD student (Sep. 2022 – Sep. 2023), co-advised by Julien Forget and Clément Ballabriga.
- Milla Valnet, M2 intern (March – July 2022), co-advised by Antoine Miné.
Funded Projects
Enseignement (en français)
2022-2023
- Compilation, M1 Université de Lille.
2021-2022
- LU1IN002 : éléments de programmation (C).
- LU2IN005 : mathématiques discrètes.
- LU2IN019 : programmation fonctionnelle (OCaml).
- LU2IN024 : logique.
- MU4IN500 : algorithmique avancée.
- MU5IN554 : spécification et validation de programmes.
- MU5IN555 : typage et analyse statique.
- MPRI 2.6 : abstract interpretation, slides
2020-2021
- LU3IN002 : programmation orientée objet avancée (Java).
2019-2020
- LU1IN001 : éléments de programmation (Python).
- MU4IN500 : algorithmique avancée.
2018-2019
- 1I001 : éléments de programmation (Python).
- ARE Calrais : atelier de recherche encadré sur le calcul et le raisonnement.
- 2I008 : programmation fonctionnelle en OCaml
- 3I018 : compilation.