Bio: Julia Lawall received the PhD degree in 1994 from Indiana University. She has been a Senior research scientist at INRIA since 2011. Previously, she was a Lektor (Associate Professor) at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include the use of programming language and software engineering technology to improve the development and evolution of systems code. She leads the development of the Coccinelle program matching and transformation system and contributes regularly to the Linux kernel based on the tools developed in her research. She is on the editorial board of the journal Science of Computer Programming, and has been a program chair of USENIX ATC, ASE, PEPM, GPCE, and ICFP.