Portfolio

Below, you can find information about myself such as my Experience, Education, Research and Awards.

Experience

2023-Present PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant

- Research: Software Testing, Large Language Models, RESTful APIs

- Teaching: Syntax and Semantics, Algorithms, Programming Projects

University of Namur

2024 Web Chair for ISSTA 25 and BENEVOL 24

Responsible for creating, updating and maintaining the websites of the related conferences.

University of Namur

2017-2023 Tourist Informant (Student Job)

Responsible for providing information about the local area to visitors.

Tourism Office of Assesse

Education

2021-2023 Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Grade: "Grande Distinction" (Magna Cum Laude)

University of Namur

2023 Master's Thesis Internship, Large Language Models and RESTful APIs

Internship at the SnT research center during 4 months.

University of Luxembourg

2018-2021 Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

Grade: "Distinction" (Cum Laude)

University of Namur

Research

2025 A Public Benchmark of REST APIs

Alix Decrop, Sara Eraso, Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin

Technical Research Paper, MSR 25 - Link

2024 Leveraging Natural Language Processing and Data Mining to Augment and Validate APIs

Alix Decrop

Doctoral Symposium Paper, ISSTA 24 - Link

2024 You Can REST Now: Automated Specification Inference and Black-Box Testing of RESTful APIs with Large Language Models

Alix Decrop, Gilles Perrouin, Mike Papadakis, Xavier Devroey, Pierre-Yves Schobbens

Research Paper, arXiv - Link

2023 Leveraging Large Language Models to Automatically Infer RESTful API Specifications

Alix Decrop, Xavier Devroey (Promotor), Gilles Perrouin (Co-Promotor)

Master's Thesis, University of Namur - Link

Awards

2024 Prize for the Best Master's Thesis in Computer Science, General Impact

University of Namur