Emad Shihab is an associate professor and Concordia research chair in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. He leads the DAS lab in developing techniques and tools that help software practitioners improve the quality of their software systems. Dr. Shihab’s research interests are in Software Quality Assurance, Mining Software Repositories, Technical Debt, and Mobile/Wearable Applications. He worked as a software research intern at BlackBerry in Waterloo, Ontario and Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Dr. Shihab is a senior member of the IEEE.

He enjoys reading, playing soccer and spending time with his kids.

Rabe Abdalkareem is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal. His research investigates how the adoption of crowdsourced knowledge affects software development and maintenance. Abdalkareem received an MSc in computer science from Concordia University.

Suhaib is a PhD student at DAS. He completed his masters at DAS in Dec. 2017, where his work focused on detection and mitigation of permission-related issues facing wearable app developers.

I am a PhD student in Software Engineering and a research assistant at DAS. I received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from American University of Kuwait in 2013. In 2016, I received a Masters of Science in Computer Engineering from Kuwait University. My search interest includes artificial intelligence and machine learning. In addition, I enjoy fishing, music, and hunting.

Ahmad Abdellatif is a Ph.D. student in the department of computer science and software engineering at Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab supervision. He received his master degree in Software Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Ahmad’s research interests include software quality, software measurements and metrics, mining software repositories in software engineering.

Mahmoud Alfadel is a first-year Ph.D. student at DAS Lab at Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Emad Shihab.  He obtained his Master’s degree in Software Engineering from KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He did his Bachelors in Information Technology Engineering in the department of software engineering at Damascus University, Syria. His current research interests include software quality analysis, mining software repositories, and software security.

Giancarlo is a second-year masters student at DAS. His work focuses on the detection and prioritization of self-admitted technical debt.

Hosein is a first-year masters student at DAS. His work focuses on the analysis of wearable device data to improve activity detection.

Atique is a first-year masters student at DAS.

Behzad is a first-year masters student at DAS.His work focuses on the analysis of streaming data coming from the wearable device to improve human activity recognition(HAR) particularly exercise activities.

Xiaowei is a first-year master student in DAS Lab. She is doing research on repository mining.

Napoleon is a first-year masters student at DAS.

Mouafak is a first-year masters student at DAS.

Everton graduated in the summer of 2016. His thesis focused on the identification of technical debt using NLP techniques.

Sultan graduated in the spring of 2017.  His thesis focused on studying the impact of technical debt on software quality.

Moiz is a second year masters student focusing on the performance evaluation of large-scale software systems.

Olivier was an undergraduate research assistant and NSERC USRA student at DAS. He assisted in the investigation of reuse in Javascript projects.

Wes worked as undergraduate research assistant at DAS, under the NSERC USRA program. He investigated project-level risk.

Ayse visited us from June – Sept 2013 from the Istanbul Technical University. The visit was very productive and lead to a publication in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal.

Hideaki is visiting the DAS lab from NAIST, Japan from June – August 2016.