MCSCERT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Abdullah joined McMaster University in the fall of 2018. He is currently studying Software Engineering.
With 45 years' experience in both industry and academia, Dr. Wassyng is a sought-after speaker, consultant and thought leader in the certification of software-intensive systems, rigorous approaches to the development of safety-critical software and the use of assurance case templates. He is an expert on functional safety and hazard analysis of safety-critical systems. He was a co-founder of McSCert and was its inaugural Director. He was also a co-founder of the Software Certification Consortium, and has been the chair of the steering committee since its inception.
Arman Samiei is an M.A.Sc. student in Software Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Mosser. He holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering and Physics from Amirkabir University of Technology. His primary research interests include Model-Driven Engineering, Software Testing, Scientific Computing, and Machine Learning.
Arthur Faron is pursuing an M.A.Sc. in software engineering at McMaster University. He previously completed his bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering & Society (Co-op) at McMaster University. He is currently the Connected & Autonomous Vehicle lead for the McMaster EcoCAR team competing in the EcoCAR EV Challenge.
Claudio Menghi received his BSc and MSc degrees in computer science from the Politecnico di Milano where he later obtained his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Ghezzi in 2015. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. He is an Assistant Professor at McMaster University.
His research interests are in formal methods and software engineering, with specific interests in cyber-physical systems, robotics, and formal verification. He has spent several years doing research with industry and applying formal methods and software engineering techniques in industrial contexts. In particular, he has led research projects with several industry partners: BOSCH and PAL Robotics in the robotics domain, and LuxSpace and QRA Corp in the aerospace and cyber-physical domain.
Dr. Tom Maibaum is a world-leading researcher in software engineering, with extensive experience in formal specification, formal methods, component-based development, and model-driven development. He held the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Foundations of Software Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Reviewer
- Senior Principal Research Engineer
Dr. Vera Pantelic's main research interests include development and certification of safety-critical software systems and model-based development. She brings extensive experience in tool-supported model-based design of automotive software to this project, as well as knowledge of ISO 26262 compliance.
Vera is a reviewer for a number of journals, including: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and International journal of Control and conferences, including the International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD), and the International conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD).
Job Titles:
- Principal Research Engineer
Dr. Victor Bandur received his B.S. and M.A.Sc. degrees from McMaster University. He received his PhD from the University of York, UK in the area of three-valued logics and software specification. He has researched safety assurance at the University of York and software aspects of cyber-physical systems at Aarhus University, Denmark. He joined McSCert in 2018 as Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Bandur is currently Principal Research Engineer, focusing on the next generation of in-vehicle computer and network architectures.
Faezeh Siavashi received her Ph.D. from Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in the field of model-based verification and testing software systems and services. She has work experience as a Software Engineer in the healthcare sector and as a Data Engineer for start-up companies in Finland.
She joined McMaster University in 2022 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working on model-based systems engineering for automotive systems and exploring systems requirements throughout design and development.
Federico Formica is a Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at McMaster University, collaborating with McSCert on research projects. He received an M.Sc and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), where he focused on Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Theory. He is interested in safety and testing methodologies of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the unique challenges this type of system creates. He is researching techniques to automatically generate test cases for testing CPS from several domains using Matlab and Simulink.
Hassan Zaker Zavardehi received his bachelor's degree from Sharif University of Technology in Computer Engineering. Now, he is pursuing his master's degree in software engineering under Dr. Paige's supervision.
Hong Sun is a PhD Candidate pursuing his interests in safety analysis and model-based engineering. Close
Dr. Hoyos's expertise is in Model-Based Systems and Software Engineering with special interest in Model Management (validation, transformation, comparison, etc.). He received his PhD from the University of York (UK) in the area of Large Scale Complex IT Systems with a focus on Model-to-Model transformations. He has spent several years doing research in academia and industry, applying model driven engineering techniques. He is a committer at the Epsilon, an open source, model management framework. He joined McSCert in 2022 as Postdoctoral Fellow.
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Job Titles:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kai Zhu received his B.Sc in biology from McMaster University, and is currently pursuing a B.Eng in Software Engineering with an interest in continuing onto graduate studies in topics involving machine learning, image processing, and software design.
Lindsay White is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in model-driven engineering, with a focus on security for safety-critical systems. She previously completed a Ph.D. in mathematics, and an M.Sc. in Computational Science & Engineering, investigating privacy for anonymous databases.
Dr. Lawford's expertise includes automotive software development, functional safety, software certification, application of formal methods to critical real-time systems and tool-supported safety-critical software engineering. His group has developed methods and tools to support software engineering methods in Matlab/Simulink. He is the software and functional safety advisor for the McMaster Engineering EcoCAR 3 team. He was a co-founder and a former Director of McSCert.
Ms. Alzaeim brings over 15 years of international experience in research operations and administration. She has successfully supported the development and implementation of over 250 research projects fostering collaborations among academic research institutions, industries, and not-for-profit organizations. From project scoping to commercialization, Ms. Alzaeim ensures projects are completed on time, on budget, with the highest quality standards, and in full compliance with funding agencies' requirements. Her academic background spans engineering, social science, and business administration, which uniquely positions her to support multidisciplinary research teams. She is a certified project manager and has postgraduate degrees from HEC Paris (Qatar), King's College London (UK) and Leuphana Universität (Germany). Close
Nicholas Annable is a Ph.D. Candidate in Software Engineering at McMaster University. He received a Master's degree (2020) and Bachelor of Engineering (2017) from McMaster University. His main research interests are in model-driven engineering, model-based safety assurance, safety-critical systems and systems engineering in general.
Dr. Paige's expertise is in Model-Based Systems and Software Engineering and technology transfer, with a particular focus on safety-critical systems and large-scale software deployment. He has published extensively on these and related topics, and is involved with a number of open-source projects on Model-Driven Engineering. He is on the editorial board for Springer's Software and Systems Modeling, Springer's Empirical Software Engineering, and the platinum open-access JOT Journal. He is the current Director of McSCert.
Job Titles:
- Undergrad Research Assistant
Safiullah Shah is a third-year undergraduate student at McMaster University studying Electrical Engineering.
His engineering interests include electrified transportation, optimization & control, and electromagnetics & photonics. Safiullah plans to pursue these interests in graduate school.
Job Titles:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sathurshan Arulmohan is in his third year of software engineering undergraduate degree. He has completed two internships at McSCert working in projects related to autonomous driving features, traffic simulations, and analyzing NLP tools. He is also an active member of McMaster's ecoCAR team where he transfers skills and knowledge between the team and McSCert.
Sebastien Mosser's research interests are related to software engineering, and more specifically, scalable software composition, domain-specific languages and modelling. In addition, Sebastien applies his research to various domains such as cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, and, more recently, source code and micro-services architecture. His research has been conducted closely with industrial partners and has led to several technological transfers.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université de Nice (France) in 2010. He was a postdoctoral student at Inria Lille-Nord Europe in 2011 before joining SINTEF (Oslo, Norway) as a research scientist. He then joined Université Côte d'Azur in 2012, where he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor in charge of the Master of Software Architecture. Before joining McMaster University, he was an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at Université du Québec à Montréal from 2019 to 2021.
Spencer obtained his undergraduate and graduate (M.Eng., Ph.D.) degrees in Civil Engineering from McMaster University. In 2000 he started a position as an Assistant Professor in the newly formed Department of Computing and Software at McMaster. Currently, Spencer is an Associate Professor in Computing and software.
Spencer has taught courses on such topics as the following: introduction to computing as a discipline, software design, software project management, scientific computing, and communication skills. Spencer's research interests focus on improving the quality of research software via the application of software engineering methodologies. Since 2006, Spencer is a licensed Professional Engineer (PEng) in the Province of Ontario.
Job Titles:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Stefan Ramdhan is an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering and Management at McMaster University. He is interested in graduate studies and working in Embedded Systems, ADAS, and Connected Vehicle Technology.
Currently, Tiago is a Ph.D. Candidate in Software Engineering at McMaster University and a Research Assistant for McSCert industrial projects. Before moving to Canada, he spent several years working in industry for a well-known R&D company in Brazil on various medical engineering projects, most of them towards medical ultrasound applications. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics and Biomedical Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil) and the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil), respectively. His research interests lie in model-based development, system engineering, and functional safety and hazard analysis for software-intensive safety-critical systems, in addition to signal/image processing techniques applied to medical imaging systems.
Job Titles:
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Winnie Trandinh is an undergraduate student studying Mechatronics Engineering and Management at McMaster University. His interests lie in the fields of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) and controls.