Alumni

Zephyrin Soh graduated in Dec 2015. Previously, he completed his Master program (DEA in French system) in Computer Science at University of Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon) in 2005. He also worked as assistant lecturer at University of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon) in the year of 2008. His research interest is to find how to improve the comprehension and the quality of software systems by trying to use the eye-tracker systems and in general interaction traces (e.g., from Mylin) in an industrial setting. Zephyrin focused on how context can be used to improve comprehension and recommendation.

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Aminata SABANÉ successfully defended her PhD in Dec 2015. She is a member of SoccerLab and Ptidej team. She obtained her Bachelor and her Master at École Supérieure d’Informatique (Université Polytechnique de Bobo Dioulasso / Burkina Faso). She contributes in the development of a parser for java source code to PADL models. Her research interests include software quality and evolution and also refactoring. Her topic is Improving System Testability and Testing with Patterns. Her PhD dissertation focused on anti-pattern and cost of testing.

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Laleh M. Eshkevari joined the PhD program of Department of Computer Science and Software engineering of École Polytechnique de Montréal in fall 2009 and graduated in Dec 2015. She received her Master degree in Computer Science from Concordia University Montreal, Canada) and a Bachelor of Mathematic Applied in Computer Science, from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran, Iran). Her research interest is in the domain of software maintenance and evolution: Change impact analysis, Linguistic refactoring, Source code analysis, Programming languages, and Data mining. Laleh dissertation focused on Java and PHP renamings. She is currently PostDoc fellow at Concordia University,

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Zohreh Sharafi graduated in June 2015. Her work focuses on program understanding and software visualization; she investigated the role of different visualization model, the role of native language and the gender bias. She used eye-trackers to propose a framework to evaluate usability of software architecture visualization techniques.

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Wei Wu successfully defended in winter 2014. He graduated in Software Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal under the supervision of Prof. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Prof. Giuliano Antoniol. Previously, he received his M.S. in Computer Science at Université de Montréal under the supervision of Prof. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc in 2010. From 1997 to 2006, he worked in TravelSky Technology Ltd. as network engineering, software developer and project manager. He received his M.S. and B.S. in E&E at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1997 and 1994 respectively.

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Soumaya Medini successfully defended her Ph.D. mid fall 2014. She holds a Master in Software Engineering from Sherbrooke University; and also holds National Engineering Degree from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie in Tunisia. Soumaya research interests are: Software Maintenance and Evolution, Search Based Software Engineering, and Information Retrieval. Her main research topic has been Concepts Identification in Execution Traces.

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Venera successfully defended her Ph.D. mid of August 2014. Before she received her engineering degree in Computer Science, Microelectronics and Automation from Polytech Lille (Lille, France). She received her Master Degree in Computer Science form Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). Her research interest is in the domain of software evolution: source code analysis, change impact analysis, refactoring, patterns and anti-patterns. Currently she is investigating different linguistic aspects of source code identifiers.

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Latifa Guerrouj successfully defended her Ph.D. mid of August 2013. She received her engineering degree with honours in software engineering in 2008 and began her PhD program in 2009 under supervision of Drs. Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc. Her research areas are program comprehension and software quality, in particular through the development of theories, approaches, and tools that ease program understanding and enhance the quality of source code. Her first contribution was a contextual approach that tackles the problem of splitting identifiers. She is currently studying the impact of using sophisticated splitting algorithms in the context of feature location and traceability. This latter research work is the first to combine identifier splitting approaches with feature location and traceability techniques. In addition, Latifa Guerrouj is investigating the effect of context on the splitting and expansion of program identifiers by means of experimental studies. Latifa Guerrouj is also interested in data mining, empirical software engineering, and search-based software engineering.

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Nasir Ali is successfully defended his Ph.D in late 2013, since then he has been post-doctoral fellows at Queen’s University and then at the University of Waterloo. He holds a MS in computer science from University of Lahore, Pakistan (under Dr. Nadeem Asif supervision). He also holds MBA degree from National College of Business Administration & Economics. His research interest includes requirement engineering, empirical software engineering, information retrieval, reverse engineering, and program comprehension. He is the first one to introduce Trust-based requirement traceability in the context of software engineering to recovery traceability links among requirements or high level documents to low level documents and increase each links trust using temporal information. He is currently working on improving requirement traceability in terms of precision and recall.

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Segla Kpodjedo received his Engineering Diploma in computer engineering in 2005 from UTBM, France. From 2006 to 2007, he pursued and completed his Master of Science Applied (M.Sc.A) at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. Since September 2007,he is a Ph. D student under the supervision of Professors Philippe Galinier and Giuliano Antoniol at SOCCERLab, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. His current work mainly revolves around search based software engineering and software evolution.

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Massimiliano Di Penta is assistant professor at the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio – Benevento (Italy). He graduated in computer Engineering at the University of Sannio on December 1999. From May 2000 he joined the Software Engineering Research Group as Ph.D. student, under the supervision of Prof. Giuliano Antoniol, and he got the Ph.D. in computer engineering in July 2003. He is member of the IEEE, of the IEEE Computer Society, and of the ACM.