Oege de Moor, Semmle
Oege de Moor is the CEO and co-founder of Semmle Ltd., a company in Oxford (UK), which develops novel query technologies. With Mathieu Verbaere and Elnar Hajiyev, he created .QL, the object-oriented query language presented here.
Oege has 25 years of software development experience. He has been involved with several ground-breaking projects in industry; in particular he worked with Charles Simonyi at Microsoft on "Intentional Programming". At present he is the leader of the abc project - a cutting-edge optimizing compiler for AspectJ. Oege is a frequent keynote speaker at international computer science conferences, and he has authored over 50 publications on topics ranging from image synthesis systems to novel programming language technologies. He holds a professorship at the University of Oxford (UK), where he leads the Programming Tools Group.