Omar AbedelKader

About Me

I am an AI researcher with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and software engineering.
I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Lille.

Responsibilities

• Founder and Maintainer of the organization Pharo-LLM.
• Member of the organizing committee, GDR-SciLog’26.
• Member of the organizing committee, ESUG’26, ESUG’25, ESUG’24.
• Sub reviewer at BENEVOL’25.
• Project Leader and Maintainer for multiples projects (ChatPharo, Pharo-Infer…).
• President of Synpase-NeuroTech-Lille, a student association focused on AI and neuroscience.
• Member at Club IA et Transition écologique (Ministère de la Transition Écologique).
• Member in the organization Pharo-AI.
• Contributor at Café IA (Conseil National du Numérique).

Publications

• AbedelKader, O., Ducasse, S., Zaitsev, O., Robbes, R., & Polito, G. (2025). Package-Aware Approach for Repository-Level Code Completion in Pharo. International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies (IWST). DOI.
• Kier, K., Giagnorio, A., Abedelkader, O., Zaitsev, O., Peharz, R., Robbes, R., Bavota, G., & Ducasse, S. (2026). Teaching LLMs a Low-Resource Language: Enhancing Code Completion in Pharo. International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). DOI.

Software

ChatPharo

• Live conversational interface between Pharo developers and large language models.
• Enables interactive discussions with LLMs directly from the Pharo environment.
• Designed an open and extensible architecture to experiment with multiple LLM backends.
• GitHub Repository: ChatPharo

INERIS-IA

• AI platform developed at INERIS for document classification and knowledge management.
• Built a Flask-based web interface integrating multiple ML and NLP models.
• Trained document classification models aligned with COP 2027 objectives and INERIS strategic themes.
• Implemented additional features including document similarity, keyword extraction, and corpus quality improvement.
• GitHub Repository: INERIS-IA

Teaching

• Teaching assistant at IUT: Introduction to Software Development 41,5 h Labs IUT-Lille
• Teaching assistant at IUT : Software Maintenance 12h Tutorials IUT-Lille
• Teaching assistant at Polytech: DataBase 16h Labs Polytech-Lille
• Teaching assistant at Polytech: Internet 12h Labs Polytech-Lille

Supervision

• Mehdi Elkolei, Bachelor Intership, 4 month, April 2026 - July 2026
  
• Srajal Dwivedi, Google Summer of Code, 3 month, May 2025 - July 2025

Public Talks

• ESUG 2025: ChatPharo: An Open Architecture for Understanding How to Talk Live to LLMs 📄 🎥
• French Brain Awareness Week: AI and the brain: two ways of learning, what does that change for our daily lives? 🔗

Awards and Honors

Awards:

• Best Paper Award (3rd place) — IWST 2025, Gdańsk, Poland
  “Package-Aware Approach for Repository-Level Code Completion in Pharo” 🔗

Honors:

• Alumni Testimonial — IDMC 2024, University of Lorraine, France
  “Alumni testimonial in NLP & AI in University of Lorraine” 🔗