Pascal Germain

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Université Laval

Pascal Germain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Université Laval. He specializes in machine learning and was working until recently at Inria, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, in France.

His areas of research include statistical theory of learning, including PAC-Bayesian theory, and learning algorithms.

Mina Taraghi

Jean-François Lalonde

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Université Laval

Jean-François Lalonde, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Université Laval, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Institute Intelligence and Data (IID), the Big Data Research Center (CRDM), and the Research Center on Vision, Robotics and Machine Intelligence (CeRVIM) at Université Laval. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Associate at Disney Research, Pittsburgh.

He received a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. His thesis, titled “Understanding and Recreating Appearance under Natural Illumination,” won the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.

His research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning.  In particular, he is interested in exploring how physics-based models and data-driven machine learning techniques can be unified to better understand, model, interpret, and recreate the richness of our visual world.

Maleknaz Nayebi

Assistant Professor, York University

Maleknaz is an Assistant Professor at York University in Toronto. Before that she was a professor at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. She received her PhD degree from Software Engineering Decision Support (SEDS) lab at The University of Calgary in Canada. Maleknaz has been working on software open innovation with a focus on the platform mediated software products. She is one of the main collaborators on DEEL Collaborative Research and Development Grants with a total value of 2M dollars. She was also a professor of IVADO data science institute with the role of fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration with industry.

She has six years of professional software engineering experience. Her main research interests are in mining software repositories for open innovation in two-sided markets. Maleknaz co-chaired SANER 2020 ERA track, ESEM 2020 Emerging ideas track, RE data track 2018, IASESE 2018 advanced school, and several workshops. Maleknaz is a member of the IEEE and ACM. Maleknaz leads a team of students and associates on analytical methods for decision support in software innovation in society.

Ruexandra Botez

Full Professor, ÉTS Montréal

Dr Ruxandra Botez is Full Professor at ÉTS University in Canada since 1998. Ruxandra is the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Holder in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technologies since 2011, and she is the Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE since 2003. Ruxandra is AIAA Associate Fellow, CASI (Canadian Aeronautical Society Institute) Associate Fellow and Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Fellow. She is Editor-in-Chief of the INCAS Bulletin. Ruxandra graduated more than 20 PhD students, 80 Master’s students (projects and theses) and 260 Internship students in her academic career. Ruxandra published more than 165 archival original journal articles, 300 conference papers, 7 invited book chapters and 2 books. Ruxandra and her team have obtained more than 50 awards; she also gave more than 50 invited speaker presentations. Ruxandra works in collaboration with various aerospace companies in Canada, such as Bombardier Aerospace, CAE Inc., Esterline CMC Electronics, Bell Helicopter Textron, Thales Aerospace, GlobVision, FLIR Systems and IAR-NRC, in the USA with Presagis and NASA, in Italy with Alenia and CIRA, in Mexico with Hydra Technologies, in Germany with DLR and in Romania with the National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (under the aegis of The Romanian Academy).

Mira Marhaba

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin

Professeure titulaire, Département de mathématiques et de génie industriel, Polytechnique Montréal

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin est professeure titulaire à Polytechnique Montréal dans le département de Mathématiques et Génie Industriel et Visiting Scientist au Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Department of Environmental Health à Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health. Elle a obtenu une maitrise de Mathématiques Appliquées et Sciences Économiques et Sociales de l’Université Aix-Marseille III (major de promotion) et un Diplôme d’Etude Approfondie (DEA) en Théorie de la Décision et Microéconomie des Risques de l’École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (major de promotion). En 2000, elle obtient un doctorat de l’École Normale Supérieure (Cachan, France) en Sciences de Gestion (spécialisation gestion des risques et assurance). Dès la fin de son doctorat, elle obtient la bourse d’Excellence Jean Walter Zellidja de l’Académie Française et rejoint le Centre Interuniversitaire de recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) pour effectuer un post-doctorat dans l’équipe du professeur Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné. En 2002, elle devient directrice de projets de l’Axe Risques technologiques, environnementaux et à la Santé (RTES) puis en 2004 chercheure du Groupe Risque. En 2009, elle est nommée Fellow et vice-présidente des groupes Risques et Développement durable. Elle est aussi membre associée du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche, réseau d’entreprise, logistique et transport (CIRRELT) et du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST).

Ahmed E. Hassan

Professor, School of Computing, Queen’s University

Ahmed E. Hassan is the NSERC/RIM Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale systems and the Canada Research Chair in Software Analytics at the School of Computing in Queen’s University. Dr. Hassan spearheaded the organization and creation of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference and its research community. He co-edited special issues of the IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering and the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering on the MSR topic. Early tools and techniques developed by Dr. Hassan’s team are already integrated into products used by millions of users worldwide. Dr. Hassan industrial experience includes helping architect the Blackberry wireless platform at RIM, and working for IBM Research at the Almaden Research Lab and the Computer Research Lab at Nortel Networks. Dr. Hassan is the named inventor of patents at several jurisdictions around the world including the United States, Europe, India, Canada, and Japan. Dr. Hassan received the Ph.D., MMath, and BMath degrees from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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Houssem Ben Braiek

Étudiant au doctorat en informatique, Polytechnique Montréal

Houssem Ben Braiek is a PhD student on Software Engineering at Polytechnic Montreal and his on-going thesis is on Software Debugging and Testing for Machine Learning (ML) Applications. He is a student member of DEEL, and he has been working as a research intern for Bombardier, a DEEL partner, since January 2020. He received a M.sc in Software Engineering from Polytechnic Montreal in 2019, with the Best Thesis Award. He also received a Bachelor in Software Engineering from National Institute of Applied Science and Technology in 2017, with the Highest GPA Award over 5 years. His research interests include dependable and trustworthy ML systems engineering, as well as software quality assurance methods and tools for ML Applications. He published scientific papers on several international conferences including MSR, ASE, and QRS, as well as, on top international journals such as TOSEM, ASE, and JSS