Community-Building
Building research communities is an opportunity, not an obligation. I aim to create spaces for researchers to share ideas, and for students to follow in their footsteps.
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 Modelling and Analysis) | Co-Chair | 2025, 2026 |
| 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 |
Program Committee Member
| Venue | Year(s) |
|---|---|
| IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) | 2026 |
| 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 |
Invited Talks & Presentations
| Title | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
| “What Does Your Digital Twin Do? A Framework and Tooling for Systematic DT Reporting” | Guest lecture, Engineering Digital Twins course (CAS 782), McMaster University (host: Prof. Istvan David) | slides | Mar. 2026 |
| “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 |
| “Recent Work on Systematic Reporting and Construction for Digital Twins” | Invited talk, Software Engineering at Montréal (SEMTL), Montréal | 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 |
| “Accelerating Digital Twin Construction with Ontologies” | Invited talk, onto:Nexus 2024: 1st Workshop on Ontological Modeling and Analysis (online) | 2024 |
| PhD Colloquium Panelist | Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) | 2023 |
| “Bridging the Gap in Verification and Validation of Complex Systems” | Invited talk, Polytechnique Montréal | 2023 |
| “Model/Graph Transformations: Specification and Verification” | Guest lecture, LOG6953DE - Model-Driven Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal (host: Prof. Mohammad Hamdaqa) | Nov. 2022 |
| “Building Domain-Specific Machine Learning Workflows: A Conceptual Framework for the State-of-the-Practice” | Invited talk, Software Engineering at Montréal (SEMTL) September seminar, Université de Montréal | Sep. 2022 |
| “Building Domain-Specific Machine Learning Workflows: A Conceptual Framework for the State-of-the-Practice” | Invited talk, Concordia University (host: Prof. Essam Mansour) | 2022 |
| “Capturing and Utilising Domain-Specific Knowledge” | Invited talk, Université du Québec à Montréal | 2022 |
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 |
Departmental Service
| Institution | Role | Year(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Polytechnique Montréal | Committee Member, Committee Rayonnement (Communications committee), Department of Computer and Software Engineering | 2025–Present |