Martin Monperrus is Professor of Software Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), where he holds a Chair from the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP). In 2011–2017, he was associate professor at the University of Lille (France) and affiliated researcher at Inria. In 2008–2011, he was research associate at Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Rennes (France) in 2008, as well as a Master’s degree and a Diplôme d’ingénieur from the Compiègne University of Technology (France) in 2004.
Martin Monperrus is widely recognized as a pioneer of AI-assisted coding. His 2009 paper Learning from Examples to Improve Code Completion Systems (ESEC/FSE 2009), co-authored with Marcel Bruch and Mira Mezini, invented the foundational concepts behind modern AI code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor. The paper received the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award (2024) “for pioneering the use of machine learning to assist developers in generating code snippets, paving the way for today’s intelligent code assistance tools.”
He was elevated to IEEE Fellow (Class of 2026), effective January 1, 2026, with the citation: “for pioneering machine learning use in code assistance and program repair, impacting millions of developers.” The IEEE Fellow grade is one of the organization’s highest honors, awarded to fewer than 0.1% of members each year following a rigorous international evaluation.