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who Dr. Stefano Zacchiroli
position Full Professor (French: professeur)
affiliation LTCI, Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris
address 19 place Marguerite Perey, 91120, Palaiseau, France (access info)
office 4.D48
phone +33 1 75 31 92 06
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social @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz
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I am full professor of computer science at Télécom Paris (part of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris), as a member of the ACES team.
I am co-founder and CSO of Software Heritage, the largest public archive of software source code.
More about my professional life and education can be found in my linked in profile.

I am a Free Software activist and developer.
I am a member of the Debian project, where I have served as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms (2010-2013).
I am also a former board director of the Open Source Initiative.
I am a recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Award and of the 2022 Google Award for Inclusion Research.


Highlights

  • We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work with my team at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris for 30 months, in the field(s) of software engineering and cybersecurity. The recruited person will work on leveraging Software Heritage as a knowledge base to improve the state of the art of (binary) software composition analysis (SCA), to detect the presence and details of open source software shipped within IT products. See the job description for details and application instructions. Contact me via email for inquiries.