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.

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.

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.

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

Suhaib is a second year masters student at DAS.

Giancarlo is a first year masters student at DAS.

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

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.

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

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