I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computing and Software of the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Canada, where I lead the Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM).
My research is situated under the broader umbrella of systems engineering, with a particular interest in sustainable systems engineering by and for advanced digital technology, such as digital twins.
I maintain additional lines of research in select topics in modeling and simulation, including modeling and simulation of cyber-(bio)physical systems, automated simulator engineering by machine learning, collaborative modeling, and model consistency in heterogeneous engineering settings.
Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Montréal, Canada, with Prof. Eugene Syriani and Prof. Houari Sahraoui; and in the Software and Sustainability group at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands with Prof. Ivano Malavolta. I received my PhD in Computer Science in 2019 from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, for my work on model consistency management in multi-paradigm settings with Prof. Hans Vangheluwe. During my Master’s, I worked on streaming model transformations by complex event processing with the VIATRA/IncQuery team at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, headed by Prof. Daniel Varro.
I’m active outside of academia as well, mainly in innovation consulting. I served in multiple management and technical roles, most recently as the Head of Innovation for a multinational quality engineering corporation.
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- Call for papers: International Workshop on Sustainability and Modeling (SusMod) – co-located with MODELS’24
https://sustainability-and-modeling.github.io/ Sustainability is becoming a key characteristic of modern systems. While this trend has been long recognized, rigorous formal methods for assessing sustainability, reasoning about often contradicting sustainability properties, and … - Call for papers: International Workshop on Collaborative and Participatory Modeling – co-located with MODELS’24
https://copamo.github.io/ Collaborative modeling is a key enabler to engineering complex systems. While mostly focusing on the technical and technological aspects of collaboration, the MDE community has also recognized the need …
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- Journal-first talk at CAiSE’24Our paper Model consistency as a heuristic for eventual correctness co-authored with Hans Vangheluwe and Eugene Syriani will be presented as a journal-first talk at this year’s CAiSE. (Pre-print available …
- Baran Shajari joins labBaran Shajari joined our lab as a Graduate student. Baran will work on the organizational and data aspects of digital twins, and will continue our successful research line, previously published, …
- Feyi Adesanya joins labFeyi Adesanya joined our lab as a Graduate student. Feyi will work on architecting digital twins for complex heterogeneous systems, and will continue our successful research line, previously published, e.g., …
- Call for papers: International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Model-driven Engineering (MDEIntelligence) – co-located with MODELS’24https://mde-intelligence.github.io Model-driven engineering (MDE) and artificial intelligence (AI) are two separate fields in computer science, which can clearly benefit from cross-pollination and collaboration. There are at least two ways in …