Xavier Le Pallec is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Lille University (France) where he received his PhD in Computer Science in 2002. From 2003 to 2007 he was member of the Trigone Laboratory, working on the Technology Enhanced Learning area. Since 2007, he is researcher in the CRIStAL Laboratory. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Namur (Belgium) during 2012.

His primary research interest is software modeling. Since several years, he focuses his works on visual aspects of modeling, topic for which he collaborates with the List Institute (CEA, Paris) and the SE-Party team of Chalmers University (Sweden). He participates to the organization of related groups or events (national group on Software Engineering / User Interaction, the Human Factors Modeling workshop at the MODELS conference…). His (+50) publications are on various application area / research projects (learning scenario, mobile application, multimodal interactions, internet of things).