Houari Sahraoui is a professor at the software engineering lab GEODES of the department of computer science and operations research, Université de Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Pierre & Marie Curie University - LIP6 (1995), with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI). His research interests include automated software engineering (SE) and the application of AI techniques to SE. He has published around 200 papers in conferences, workshops, books, and journals. He has served as a program committee member in several IEEE and ACM conferences, as a member of the editorial boards of five journals, and as an organization member of many conferences and workshops. He was the general chair and program chair of many conferences such as IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), and IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT). He and his students have authored several award-winning papers.