Speaker Bio

Emad Shihab is Associate Vice-President, Research, Policy, Entrepreneurship and Impact and Professors in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. He is the former Dean of Research and Innovation. He holds a National Bank/Concordia University Research Chair in Trustworthy AI-based Systems. His research interests are in Software Engineering, Mining Software Repositories, Software Analytics, and Software Bots. Dr. Shihab received the 2019 MSR Early Career Achievement Award and the 2019 CS-CAN/INFO-CAN Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize. His work has been published in some of the most prestigious SE venues, including ICSE, ESEC/FSE, MSR, ICSME, EMSE, and TSE. His work has been done in collaboration with world-renowned researchers from Australia, Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, Singapore and the USA and adopted by some of the biggest software companies, such as Microsoft, Avaya, BlackBerry, and Ericsson. He is a senior member of the IEEE. His homepage is: http://das.encs.concordia.ca/