| Jan 19, 2026 | I have been awarded a Best Reviewer Award for 2025 from the International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM). |
| Nov 30, 2025 | I was honoured to present a guest lecture in Dr. Maged Elaasar’s RAISE course at UCLA, titled “What is a ‘Digital Twin’ and How Do I Build One?” |
| Oct 10, 2025 | We had a very successful time in Grand Rapids, MI at MODELS 2025 and EDTconf 2025. I was also lead organizer of the onto:Nexus Workshop 2025 (International Workshop on Ontological Modeling and Analysis), co-located with MODELS 2025. |
| Aug 05, 2025 | Our paper Model-Based Systems Engineering Perspectives: A Survey of Practitioner Experiences and Challenges has been accepted at SAM 2025. |
| Aug 05, 2025 | We have had two papers accepted at the International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins: DTInsight: A Tool for Explicit, Interactive, and Continuous Digital Twin Reporting and Engineering a Digital Twin for the Monitoring and Control of Beer Fermentation Sampling. |
| Jun 19, 2025 | We had a very successful Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) event. I was poster chair, chaired a panel, had an SEMTL meeting, and presented a tutorial on What is a “Digital Twin” and How Do I Build One?. |
| May 30, 2025 | I went to Concordia University’s Next-Generation Cities Institute to present my work on Accelerating Digital Twin Research and Engineering. |
| May 12, 2025 | I gave a talk on Systematic Digital Twin Reporting at the EDT.Community talks. There is a recorded video. |
| May 05, 2025 | I had a great time at ICSE, the premier software engineering conference. I was poster co-chair, presented our paper on Building Domain-Specific Machine Learning Workflows: A Conceptual Framework for the State-of-the-Practice, and our paper titled CoMRAT: Commit Message Rationale Analysis Tool. It was also nice to see the SEMTL community at ICSE. |
| Apr 24, 2025 | We had another SEMTL meeting at Concordia. It was well-attended by participants, many heading to ICSE. |
| Apr 04, 2025 | I was thrilled to see the student presentations in my Digital Twin Engineering class! |
| Apr 01, 2025 | Our paper Automated Extraction and Analysis of Developer’s Rationale in Open Source Software has been accepted at FSE 2025! |
| Mar 27, 2025 | I gave a talk entitled “Accelerating Digital Twin Research and Engineering” in Prof. Istvan David’s Engineering Digital Twins course, at McMaster University. The slides are available here: slides. |
| Mar 11, 2025 | I will be Student Volunteers Co-Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) 2025, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| Mar 04, 2025 | I’ve accepted the Student Volunteers Co-Chair position for the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) conference 2026, held in Montréal. |
| Mar 03, 2025 | Our SIMULATION special issue Modeling and Simulation for Software Intensive Systems from IoT to Digital Twins is now published. |
| Feb 27, 2025 | I had the opportunity to present my research to the visiting delegation from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) at Polytechnique Montréal, to discuss the challenges and advancements in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). |
| Feb 13, 2025 | The Oakes Lab will be welcoming Angelica Portocarrero to our lab this summer as a MITACS Globalink Intern. Welcome Angelica! |
| Jan 30, 2025 | Our paper CoMRAT: Commit Message Rationale Analysis Tool has been accepted in the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR). |
| Jan 25, 2025 | I’m honoured to serve on the Program Committee for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) 2025. |
| Dec 09, 2024 | I’m thrilled that our paper Building Domain-Specific Machine Learning Workflows: A Conceptual Framework for the State-of-the-Practice has been accepted for a journal-first presentation at ICSE 2025 in Ottawa. |
| Nov 21, 2024 | I presented in the Polytechnique course LOG8704 - Développement logiciel en réalité étendue (XR Software Development). My presentation was titled “Digital Twins: Introductions and Intersections”. |
| Sep 25, 2024 | I presented our SoSyM paper “Fault localization in DSLTrans model transformations by combining symbolic execution and spectrum-based analysis” at MODELS 2024 and won the SoSyM Journal-First award. |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Our paper “Towards Ontological Service-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins” has won the Best Short Paper Award at the 1st International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTConf 2024)! [pre-print] [video] |
| Sep 01, 2024 | We have contributed to the book “The Engineering of Digital Twins”, which is now available. |
| Aug 09, 2024 | Our paper “Towards Ontological Service-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins” has been accepted at the 1st International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTConf 2024). |
| May 10, 2024 | Our paper “Towards a Systematic Reporting Framework for Digital Twins: A Cooperative Robotics Case Study” has been accepted in the Simulation journal. A pre-print is available. |
| Mar 11, 2024 | I’m excited to be one of the publicity chairs for the 1st International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTConf 2024) in Linz, Austria. |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Our paper “Rationale Dataset and Analysis for the Commit Messages of the Linux Kernel Out-of-Memory Killer” was accepted at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2024). |
| Dec 15, 2023 | I will be a co-chair for the posters at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025) in Ottawa. |