[NEW] PhD position in sustainable and green software engineering with a start date in 2025 September. Read the call HERE.
[NEW] 2025 Summer Research Assistant position in empirical software engineering. Read the call HERE.
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at McMaster University, Canada, where I lead the Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM). I am also affiliated with the McMaster’s Centre for Software Certification (McSCert).
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 and AI.
I maintain additional lines of research in select topics in model-driven engineering (MDE) and simulation, including modeling and simulation of cyber-(bio)physical systems, automated simulator engineering, collaborative modeling, and model consistency in heterogeneous engineering settings.
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 (ex-McGill, currently at University of Antwerp, Belgium). Afterwards, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Software and Sustainability group at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands with Prof. Ivano Malavolta; and at University of Montréal, Canada, with Prof. Eugene Syriani and Prof. Houari Sahraoui. In my Master’s years, 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 (ex-McGill, currently at Linköping University, Sweden).
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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- New conference publication (ICSE NIER): “SusDevOps: Promoting Sustainability to a First Principle in Software Delivery”
Our paper on SusDevOps: Promoting Sustainability to a First Principle in Software Delivery has been accepted for the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track of the 2025 edition of … - Kyanna Dagenais talks about uncertain guidance in reinforcement learning at the CAS Department Seminar series
Kyanna Dagenais presented her work on guiding reinforcement learning agents by uncertain human advice at the seminar series of the Department of Computing and Software. Kyanna’s research focuses on the … - Open PhD position in sustainable and green computing (2025)
The Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM) is looking for a highly ambitious student to fill a fully-funded PhD position on sustainable and green software engineering, with a start in … - SoSyM Theme section on “Modeling for Simulation”
We are preparing a theme section in the International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling – SoSyM (Springer, IF: 2.1) on “Modeling for Simulation“. (CFP below. Official version HERE.) Simulation is … - On the Utility of Domain Modeling Assistance with Large Language Models (pre-print)
The pre-print of our work On the Utility of Domain Modeling Assistance with Large Language Models, in collaboration with Meriem Ben Chaaben, Lola Burgueño, and Houari Sahraoui is available on … - Kyanna Dagenais receives NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
Kyanna Dagenais, undergraduate researcher in our lab, has been awarded the prestigious Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in support …
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- Mutaz Helal joins labMutaz Helal joined our lab to work on sustainable and green software engineering and AI with us in the 2025 Winter term. Mutaz is a senior undergraduate student in the …
- Student participation at this year’s CWICTwo of our students, Baran Shajari and Feyi Adesanya have participated in the ACM & CS-CAN INFO Annual Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (CAN-CWIC), organized at York University …
- Guest lecture at Toronto Metropolitan University on Digital TwinsOn November 1 2024, I had the pleasure of giving a guest lecture on “Digital Twins: Foundations and applications” at Toronto Metropolitan University, organized by Professor Sadaf Mustafiz. Abstract. Digital …
- Talk on automating systematic reviews at the Dept. of Family Medicine @MacOn October 22, I had the honor to talk about our research on automating systematic reviews by LLMs (see here and here) at the Department of Family Medicine of McMaster …