Zacharie Chenail-Larcher

PhD researcher: NLP4SE & SE4NLP

PhD Candidate, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

About

Education

PhD in Software Engineering

École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) · 2025 - present

Supervised by Naouel Moha, Florent Avellaneda

Invited PhD Researcher

SnT, University of Luxembourg · 2026

Supervised by Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Daniele Lunghi

Master's in Software Engineering

École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

Supervised by Naouel Moha

Automatic E2E test case generation for IoT systems

Bachelor's in Computer Science and Software Engineering

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Publications

2026

RiskyPy: Toward Automated Prompt Generation Tasks Calibrated to Model Proficiency for Joint Security and Functionality Evaluation of Generated Code

Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Daniele Lunghi, Melissa TESSA, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Florent Avellaneda, Naouel Moha

Preprint · conference

Co-First Author and equal contribution with Daniele Lunghi

https://github.com/ChL-Z/RiskyPy-Pipeline

preprint

2026

LLM Code Smells: A Taxonomy and Detection Approach

Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Brahim Mahmoudi, Quentin Stiévenart, Naouel Moha, Florent Avellaneda

Preprint · journal

Co-First Author and equal contribution with Brahim Mahmoudi

https://github.com/Brahim-Mahmoudi/Code_Smell_LLM

preprint

2026

Specification and Detection of LLM Code Smells

Brahim Mahmoudi, Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Quentin Stiévenart, Naouel Moha, Florent Avellaneda

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), NIER Track · conference

Co-First Author and equal contribution with Brahim Mahmoudi

https://github.com/Brahim-Mahmoudi/SpecDetect4LLM_ICSE

paper preprint

2026

GLiSE: A Prompt-Driven and ML-Powered Tool for Automated Grey Literature Extraction in Software Engineering

Brahim Mahmoudi, Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Houcine Abdelkader Cherief, Quentin Stiévenart, Naouel Moha, Florent Avellaneda

Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026), Tool Track · conference

Co-First Author and equal contribution with Houcine Abdelkader Cherief and Brahim Mahmoudi

https://github.com/anonymous10112025-prog/GLiSE

paper preprint

2025

Test generation from use case specifications for IoT systems: Custom, LLM-based, and hybrid approaches

Zacharie Chenail-Larcher, Jean Baptiste Minani, Naouel Moha

IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2025), Short Paper Track · conference

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Talks

Activities

Undergraduate Final Project Supervision, Continuation (Summer 2026)

Supervised a new group of students continuing the Winter 2026 project on an AI-based web platform for automated scientific literature search at ÉTS. Faculty supervisors: Naouel Moha and Ghizlane El Boussaidi.

Undergraduate Final Project Supervision (Winter 2026)

Initiated and led a final undergraduate project on an AI-based web platform for automated scientific literature search at ÉTS. Supervised and mentored the student team as project lead and technical advisor. Faculty supervisors: Naouel Moha and Ghizlane El Boussaidi.

Graduate Student Mentoring (Winter 2026)

Guided Ghiles Amrane on his Master's project titled 'Evaluation and optimization of simple, black-box, and accessible approaches for prompt injection detection in LLM-based applications'. Faculty supervisor: Naouel Moha.