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Taher is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Trent University. He received his PhD from Queen’s University, Canada, where he was awarded the prestigious Ontario Trillium Scholarship. Following his PhD, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Toronto and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ottawa. His research addresses complex Software Engineering challenges using data science and AI techniques. Taher has (co)authored more than 45 papers in top-tier journals and conferences and holds seven US patents. He has contributed to various research projects, collaborating with academic and industrial partners locally and globally. He is eager to dedicate his efforts to advancing impactful scientific research, teaching, mentoring students, and fostering future academic and industrial collaborations.
Contributions
2026
ICSME
ESEC/FSE
- Committee Member in Program Committee within the Research Papers-track
- Author of A Comprehensive Multi-Vocal Empirical Study of ML Cloud Service Misuses within the Journal-First Paper-track
- Author of CI/CD Configuration Practices in Open-Source Android Apps: An Empirical Study within the Journal-First Paper-track
- Author of A Vision for Context-Aware CI Adoption Decisions within the Ideas, Visions and Reflections-track
ICST
Mining Software Repositories
- Session Chair of Session 3-A: Tutorial + Registered reports talks (part of MSR Program)
- Author of LogSieve: Task-Aware CI Log Reduction for Sustainable LLM-Based Analysis within the Technical Papers-track
- Author of Fingerprinting AI Coding Agents on GitHub within the Mining Challenge-track
- Author of Code Change Characteristics and Description Alignment: A Comparative Study of Agentic versus Human Pull Requests within the Mining Challenge-track
- Author of Role of CI Adoption in Mobile App Success: An Empirical Study of Open-Source Android Projects within the Technical Papers-track
- Author of When AI Agents Touch CI/CD Configurations: Frequency and Success within the Mining Challenge-track
- PC Member in Technical Papers - Program Committee within the Technical Papers-track
SANER
- Author of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in LLM Software: An Empirical Comparison with ML and Non-ML Software within the Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track -track
- Author of MLmisFinder: A Specification and Detection Approach of Machine Learning Service Misuses within the Research Track-track
2025
ICSME
- Author of An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows within the Registered Reports-track
- Author of Are We Over-Testing? Studying Redundant Test Executions in Multi-Job CI Workflows within the Registered Reports-track
- Author of From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption within the NIER Track-track
- Author of CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models within the Registered Reports-track
- Author of Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations within the NIER Track-track