Community-Building

Building research communities should be more than just an expectation of being a professor — I sincerely think it is an opportunity to create spaces for not only researchers to share ideas, but also for students to learn to become the next generation of scholars. Here I share my continual activity to build and connect, and I invite you to do the same.


Jump to: Lead Organizer  ·  Organising Committee  ·  Invited Talks  ·  Program Committee  ·  Journal Reviewer  ·  Grant Reviewer  ·  Guest Editor  ·  Jury Member  ·  Panelist


Lead Organizer

Software Engineering at Montréal (SEMTL) — Aug. 2022 to Present

I am the lead organizer of the SEMTL research seminar series, which brings together software engineering professors and students from the six major Montréal research institutions approximately every two months. SEMTL aims to disseminate research ideas throughout the local community, foster collaborations, advertise opportunities, and socialize — and to give students a chance to practice their communication skills before a supportive audience. SEMTL has also helped multiple PhD students and post-doctoral researchers from the community find their next position.

Since 2022, SEMTL has held nineteen meetings with an average of 30 to 40 participants, featuring keynotes from top SE researchers and dozens of student presentations. We have also produced a paper published at MODELS 2024

Organising Committee Member

Conference/Workshop Role Year(s)
ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) Student Volunteer Co-Chair 2026
onto:Nexus Workshop (International Workshop on Ontological Modeling and Analysis, co-located with MODELS) Co-Chair 2025
Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) Student Volunteer Co-Chair 2025
Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) Posters Co-Chair 2024, 2025
Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) Posters Co-Chair 2022
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Posters Co-Chair 2025
International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf) Publicity Co-Chair 2024
Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) Proceedings Co-Chair 2024
Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) Cyber-Physical Systems Track Co-Chair 2022, 2023

Invited Talks & Presentations

Title Venue Date
“What is a ‘Digital Twin’ and How Do I Build One?” Guest lecture, RAISE course, UCLA (host: Dr. Maged Elaasar) Nov. 2025
“What is a ‘Digital Twin’ and How Do I Build One?” Tutorial, Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) Jun. 2025
“Systematic Digital Twin Reporting” EDT.Community Talks | video May 2025
“Accelerating Digital Twin Research and Engineering” Next-Generation Cities Institute, Concordia University May 2025
“Building Domain-Specific Machine Learning Workflows…” (journal-first) ICSE 2025, Ottawa May 2025
“Accelerating Digital Twin Research and Engineering” Guest lecture, Engineering Digital Twins course, McMaster University (host: Prof. Istvan David) | slides Mar. 2025
Research presentation on Advanced Air Mobility KARI Delegation, Polytechnique Montréal Feb. 2025
“Fault localization in DSLTrans model transformations…” (SoSyM Journal-First) MODELS 2024 Sep. 2024
“Digital Twins: Introductions and Intersections” Guest lecture, LOG8704 - XR Software Development, Polytechnique Montréal Nov. 2024

Program Committee Member

Venue Year(s)
Automated Software Engineering – NIER Track 2025
Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) 2025
EMMSAD 2025
International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf) 2024, 2025
Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2026
DIGITA Workshop (co-located with PerCom) 2026
International Workshop on Architecting and Engineering Digital Twins (AEDT) 2025, 2026
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE Intelligence) 2022, 2023, 2024
International Workshop on Models and Evolution 2022
ACM Student Research Competition 2022
Spring Simulation Conference 2020
Summer Simulation Conference 2019, 2020

Journal Reviewer

🏆 Top 1% Reviewer for SoSyM (2020 & 2021)  ·  Best Reviewer Award, SoSyM (2025)  ·  Best Reviewer Award, SIMULATION (2023)
Journal Role / Recognition Year(s)
Journal of Systems & Software (JSS) Reviewer 2025
Information and Software Technology (IST) Reviewer 2025
Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) 🏆 Top 1% Reviewer (2020 & 2021) · Best Reviewer Award (2025) 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) Reviewer 2024
SIMULATION 🏆 Best Reviewer Award (June 2023) 2023
Science of Computer Programming (SCP) Reviewer 2023
Journal of Computer Languages (JCL) Reviewer 2022
Journal of Object Technology (JOT) Reviewer 2022
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) Reviewer 2022
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) Reviewer 2021

Grant Reviewer

Grant Year
NSERC Idea to Innovation grant 2024
NSERC Discovery grant 2025, 2026
Dutch Research Council (NWO) 2026

Guest Editor for Journal Special Issue

Venue Issue Title Year
SIMULATION Modeling and Simulation for Software-Intensive Systems: from IoT to Digital Twins 2023

Jury Member

Institution Role Year
Polytechnique Montréal M.Sc. Thesis Jury President 2024
McGill University PhD Thesis External Reviewer 2024
McGill University M.Sc. Thesis External Reviewer 2023

Panelist

Venue Role Year
Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) PhD Colloquium Panel 2023