From October 2026, the Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM) continues its operation as the Model-Integrated and Learning-Enabled Systems Lab (MILES).
We founded our lab at McMaster University in 2023 as the Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM). The original mission of the lab was primed on various forms of sustainability, particularly technical (maintainability) and social/individual (human factors) sustainability. From day one, though, the lab has led cutting-edge research on model-driven engineering and machine learning, which grew into the primary (and almost exclusive) topic we focus on. To reflect this focus, we chose to continue with a re-envisioned mission and agenda.
This change does not affect the personnel or key research directions—it is a mere reflection of our identity as a research lab.
Learn more about the mission and research goals of MILES here: https://istvandavid.com/about-miles/.
