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.

Diego Costa is a postdoctoral researcher at the DAS Lab, lead by Prof. Emad Shihab, which is part of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, at Concordia University. His research interests cover a wide range of software engineering and performance engineering related topics, including mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, performance testing, memory-leak detection, and adaptive data structures.

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 Mujahid 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.

Mohamed Elshafei 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 bots, software quality, and mining software repositories.

Mahmoud Alfadel is a 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 mining software repositories and software security.

Abbas Javan Jafari is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab’s supervision. He has previously received his Masters and Bachelors degree in Software Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. Abbas’s current research interests include Empirical Software Engineering and Software Security.

SayedHassan Khatoonabadi is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab’s supervision

Xiaowei Chen is a first-year Software Engineering Master under the supervision of Dr. Emad Shihab,  her research interests include Maintenance Engineering, Mining Repositories, Software System and Ecosystem.

Khaled Badran is a Master’s Software Engineering student at Concordia University. His research interests include software bots/chatbots, mining software repositories, and natural language processing. He obtained the Top Concordian Graduate Entrance Scholarship Award for his Master’s studies.

Mahsa Afzali Arani is a software engineering masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Emad Shihab. She received her bachelor’s degree in bio-medical engineering from Azad University, Iran. Her work focuses on analysing data acquired through wearable devices in order to improve human activity recognition (HAR).
Mahsa’s research interests: bio-signal/ image processing, wearable devices, Human Machine Interface (HMI).

Patrick is a Master’s student at Concordia University’s DAS Lab supervised by Dr. Emad Shihab. He is currently doing research on Gamification in Software Engineering.

Jasmine is a Software Engineering master’s student at Concordia University’s DAS Lab under Dr.Emad Shihab’s supervision. She received her bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Concordia University. Her research interests include mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, and continuous integration.

Riya Dutta is a MSc student at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab’s supervision.

Farbod Farhour is a MSc student at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab’s supervision.

Nicholas Nagy is a third year undergraduate student studying Software Engineering at Concordia University. He joined the DAS Lab as a research assistant under the NSERC Undergraduate Research Student Award. His main research interests relate to Software Quality Assurance, Mining Software Repositories and Machine Learning.

Everton Maldonado completed his Masters in 2016. His thesis is entitled: “Identifying Self-Admitted Technical Debt”.

Sultan Wehaibi completed his Masters in 2017. His thesis is entitled: “On the Relationship Between Self-Admitted Technical Debt and Software Quality”.

Moiz Arif completed his Masters in 2017. His thesis is entitled: “An Empirical Study on the Discrepancy between Performance Testing Results from Virtual and Physical Environments”.

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

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

Giancarlo Sierra Monge completed his Masters in  2019 and joined National Bank as a Data Scientist. His thesis is entitled: “Towards the Repayment of Self-Admitted Technical Debt”.

Hosein Nourani completed his Masters in 2020. His thesis is entitled: “A Comprehensive Comparison of Human Activity Recognition using Inertial Sensors”.

Md Atique Reza Chowdhury completed his Masters in 2019. His thesis is entitled: “Untriviality of Trivial Packages”.

Behzad Dehghani completed his Masters in 2019. His thesis is entitled: “A quantitative comparison of Overlapping and Non-overlapping sliding windows effects for human activity recognition using inertial sensors”.

Mouafak Mkhallalati completed his Masters in 2019. His thesis is entitled: “A Qualitative Study of Vulnerability-Fixing Commits”.

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 visited the DAS lab from NAIST, Japan from June – August 2016.

Juan visited the DAS lab from Universidad Nacional de Colombia during Sept. 2018 to Apr. 2019.  He worked on empirical research on feature toggles usage and management.

Mairieli is a visiting student at DAS. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mairieli is working on the use of Software Bots to assist development tasks.