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 artificial intelligence.
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, 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. 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.
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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- Guest lecture at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
On October 15 2024, I will have the pleasure of giving a guest lecture about the “Foundations of Engineering Digital Twins” for some bright minds at the Federal University of … - Xiaoran Liu’s paper receives invitation to SoSyM
Xiaoran (Sharon) Liu‘s recent conference paper “AI Simulation by Digital Twins: Systematic Survey of the State of the Art and a Reference Framework” [preprint], which she published at the 1st … - Our lab’s strong showing at this year’s MODELS
We have five accepted papers for this year’s MODELS’ co-located and satellite events; and in addition, we lead the organization of two workshops. Accepted papers Sharon Liu, PhD candidate in … - Opinion-guided reinforcement learning (pre-print)
The full pre-print of our work on Opinion-guided reinforcement learning with Kyanna Dagenais is now available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17287. Abstract. Human guidance is often desired in reinforcement learning to improve … - Podcast interview on guiding your reader toward your way of thinking
Last week, I had the pleasure of discussing some of the best practices in scientific writing with on Daniel Shae’s Scholarly Communication podcast. Together with co-author Houari Sahraoui, we analyzed … - New journal article on Screening Articles for Systematic Reviews with ChatGPT
Our article on Screening Articles for Systematic Reviews with ChatGPT with Eugene Syriani and Gauransh Kumar has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Computer Languages (COLA). This is …
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- Joining the McMaster’s Centre for Software Certification (McSCert)Recently, I had the pleasure of joining McMaster’s Centre for Software Certification (McSCert). McSCert is dedicated to the certification of software-intensive systems, as well as the design of such systems …
- Call for Abstracts: 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computinghttps://locos.codeberg.page/loco2024/ The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will …
- Program Committee: CAiSE’25I’m honored to serve on the Program Committee of the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). CAiSE is the leading venue of the information systems community, a well-established and …
- Organizing committee: EMMSAD’25Thrilled to serve on the Organizing Committee of the 30th Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development (EMMSAD) as the Co-chair of the Foundations of modeling & method engineering …