His research interests include (1) innovative testing, debugging and repair techniques, (2) mobile Android security using static code analysis, machine learning techniques and, (3) design of robust machine-learning based systems. His research is inspired from and applies to several industry partners (Fintech BGL BNP-Paribas and Paypal, Smartgrid - CREOS, Industry 4.0 - Cebi).

His achievements and visibility have been recently acknowledged by an international journal, JSS, ranking him among the top-15 most impactful experienced SE researchers in the past decade, worldwide. Yves Le Traon is one of the recipients of the Facebook Testing and Verification 2019 - Research Award.

He is also Director of Studies of the Master in Information System Security Management (MSSI) and co-founder of Datathings, a spin-off company of University of Luxembourg providing advanced AI software to perform scalable decision-making at runtime.