Personal Data

Education

• 9/2004-Current:  Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.
  
  
  
• 9/2002-8/2004:  M.Sc., School of Computer Science, McGill Univertsity, Canada.
  M.Sc Thesis Title: Objective Quantification of Program Behaviour Using Dynamic Metrics.
  
  
  
• 9/1999-04/2002:  B.Sc., School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada.
  
  

Languages

• English:  spoken, read, written.
  
  
• French:  spoken, read, written.
  
  

Honours and Awards

• 9/2002-4/2003:  IT Fellowship, McGill University.
  
  
• 5/2002-8/2002:  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA).
  
  

Research grants

• (Declined):  Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS D).
  
  
• 5/2003-8/2003:  Le Fonds Québecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT), Bourse de Maitrise en Recherche B1 (B1 M.Sc Research Grant).
  
  

Research experience

• 5/2005-8/2005:  Summer internship, Intelligent Application Analysis Group, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA.
  
  
• 5/2002-8/2002:  Summer internship, Sable research group, McGill University.
  
  
• 5/2001-8/2001:  Summer internship, Modelling, Simulation and Design Lab (MSDL), McGill University.
  
  

Teaching experience

• 9/2004-05/2005:  Teaching assistant for 198-111 (Introduction to Computer Science), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
  
  
• 1/2003-4/2003:  Project mentor - 308-621B (Optimizing Compilers), McGill University.
  
  
• 9/2001-12/2001:  Teaching assistant for 308-435A (Basics of Computer Networks), McGill University.
  
  

Refereed conference publications

1. Bruno Dufour, Christopher Goard, Laurie Hendren, Oege de Moor, Ganesh Sittampalam, and Clark Verbrugge, Measuring the Dynamic Behaviour of AspectJ Programs, Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2004), pp. 150-169, October 2004, Vancouver, Canada.
   
   
2. Bruno Dufour, Karel Driesen, Laurie Hendren and Clark Verbrugge, Dynamic Metrics for Java, Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2003), pp. 149-168, October 2003, Anaheim, USA.
   
   
3. Qin Wang, Wei Wang, Rhodes Brown, Karel Driesen, Bruno Dufour, Laurie Hendren and Clark Verbrugge, EVolve: An Open Extensible Software Visualization Framework, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis 2003), pp. 37-46, June 2003, San Diego, USA.
   
   

Other publications

1. Bruno Dufour, Christopher Goard, Laurie Hendren, Oege de Moor, Ganesh Sittampalam, and Clark Verbrugge, Measuring the Dynamic Behaviour of AspectJ Programs, Sable Technical Report 2004-2, March 2004. (Submitted to OOPSLA 2004)
   
   
2. Bruno Dufour, Christopher Goard, Laurie Hendren and Clark Verbrugge, Oege de Moor, and Ganesh Sittampalam, Measuring the Dynamic Behaviour of AspectJ Programs, Sable Technical Report 2003-8, December 2003. (Submitted to ECOOP 2004)
   
   
3. Bruno Dufour and Clark Verbrugge, Dynamic Metrics in Action, Dagstuhl Seminar 03491 "Understanding Program Dynamics", December 2003, Dagstuhl, Germany.
   
   
4. Bruno Dufour, Laurie Hendren, and Clark Verbrugge, Problems in Objectively Quantifying Benchmarks using Dynamic Metrics, Workshop on Middleware Benchmarking: Approaches, Results, Experiences at OOPSLA'03, October 2003, Anaheim, USA.
   
   
5. Bruno Dufour, Laurie Hendren, and Clark Verbrugge, *J: A Tool for Dynamic Analysis of Java Programs (Poster), in Addendum to OOPSLA'03, October 2003, Anaheim, USA.
   
   
6. Bruno Dufour, Karel Driesen, Laurie Hendren, and Clark Verbrugge, Dynamic Metrics for Java, Sable Technical Report 2003-1, March 2003. (Submitted to OOPSLA 2003)
   
   
7. Qin Wang, Wei Wang, Rhodes Brown, Karel Driesen, Bruno Dufour, Laurie Hendren and Clark Verbrugge, EVolve: An Open Extensible Software Visualization Framework, Sable Technical Report 2002-12, December 2002. (Submitted to SoftVis 2003)
   
   
8. Bruno Dufour, Karel Driesen, Laurie Hendren and Clark Verbrugge, Dynamic Metrics for Compiler Developers, Sable Technical Report 2002-11, November 2002. (Submitted to PLDI 2003)
   
   

Publicly available software packages

1. *J, a tool for dynamic analysis of Java Programs
   URL: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/starj/
   
   
2. Ashes2, a language-agnostic benchmarking toolkit
   URL: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~bdufou1/ashes2/