Professors

  • Emad Shihab

    I am an associate professor and Concordia research chair in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. I lead the DAS lab in developing techniques and tools that help software practitioners improve their software. Some of my research has been done in collaboration with and/or adopted in industry by companies such as Avaya, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Microsoft.
    I enjoy reading, playing soccer and spending time with my kids.

 

PhD Students

  • Rabe Abdalkareem

    PhD student

    Rabe is a second year PhD student working on the impact of code reuse from Q&A forums.

  • Mohamed Elshafei

    PhD student

    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.

 

Masters Students

  • Moiz Arif

    MASc. student

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

  • Maaz Hafeez Ur Rehman

    MASc. student

    Maaz is a first year masters student focusing on the prioritization of testing efforts.

  • Suhaib Mujahid

    MASc. student

    Suhaib is a first year masters student at DAS.

  • Giancarlo Sierra Monge

    MASc. student

    Giancarlo is a first year masters student at DAS.

Undergrad Students

  • Wesley Chung

    Undergraduate student

    Wes is an undergraduate research assistant at DAS. He was previously an NSERC USRA student investigating project-level risk.

Alumni

  • Everton Maldonado

    MASc. student

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

  • Sultan Wehaibi

    MASc. student

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

  • Olivier Noury

    Undergraduate student

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

Visitors

  • Prof. Ayse Tosun Misrili

    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.

  • Keisuke Fujino

    Keisuke visited us from May – Sept 2015 from NAIST in Japan.

  • Prof. Hideaki Hata

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