Topic | Highlights |
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Awards |
Oakland University Researcher of the Year Award, 2022 Oakland University Most Active Researcher Award, 2022 President of Tunisia Distinguished Researcher Award, 2018 University of Michigan Dearborn Distinguished Research Award (2019) University of Michigan Dearborn Distinguished Digital Education Award (2018) University of Michigan Dearborn Distinguished Teaching Award (2016) University of Michigan Invention of the Year (Intelligent Software Refactoring, 2018) IEEE 10-Year Most Influential Paper Award in Program Comprehension (2011-2021) |
Global Standing |
Ranked among the top 5 most productive Software Engineering Researchers (2010-2019) based on a review in the prestigious journal Journal of Systems and Software: “An Assessment of Software Engineering Scholars and Institutions (2010-2019)”, Journal of systems and software Ranked among the top 15 Software Engineering scholars worldwide based on high quality journal publications based on a recent review in the prestigious journal Journal of Systems and Software: “An Assessment of Software Engineering Scholars and Institutions”, Journal of systems and software, 2021 Ranked as the most productive researcher (#1) in the research area of software refactoring based on a recent survey published in a top Software Engineering journal: Mariani, Thaina, and Silvia Regina Vergilio. “A systematic review on search-based refactoring.” Information and Software Technology 83 (2017): 14-34. Ranked #1 as the most active researcher, in the research area of JAVA anti- patterns based on a recent published survey: Gupta, A., Suri, B. and Misra, S., 2017, July. ”A Systematic Literature Review: Code Bad Smells in Java Source Code.” In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 665-682). Springer. Ranked #2 worldwide in the research area of refactoring: Mohan, M., Greer, D. A survey of search-based refactoring for software maintenance. J Softw Eng Res Dev 6, 3 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s40411-018-0046-4 |
Grants | 40+ |
Keynotes & Plenary Talks | 42 |
Publications (Refereed Journals & Conferences) |
170 total 82 Journals 88 Conference papers |
Citations, h-index, i10 index |
5,036 citations h-index 45 i10 index 96 |
University Administration Experience and Leadership |
Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University (The largest department at Oakland University currently with 900+ students and $6.5M in research funding) Director, OU AI Interdisciplinary Research and Education Initiatives (led various education and research collaborations among multiple departments and schools at Oakland University) Director, CSI Rackham PhD program at the University of Michigan Dearborn Founding Director, AI and Data Science Master programs at the University of Michigan Dearborn Director, Software Engineering Master program at the University of Michigan Dearborn |
Research Institute/Center Administration Leadership Experience |
Founding Director, NSF IUCRC Center on Pervasive AI (funded by NSF and 20+ industry members: $1.5M+) Founding Director, Department of Energy Center on Cybersecurity for Energy Infrastructure (funded by the Department of Energy to enable training and research opportunities for energy companies located in Michigan in collaboration with Automation Alley: $2M+) Founding Director, Dearborn Artificial Intelligence Research Center (DAIR) (funded by 15+ companies after leading fundraising activities: $200K+) |
Research Community Leadership |
General Chair, 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering ASE 2022 General Chair, ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems MODELS 2025 PC chair, 28th edition of the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering SANER 2021 PC Chair, 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2019 Steering Committee Chair of major International Software Engineering Conference (ASE) |
Editorial Boards Leadership |
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Editor, IEEE Transactions on emerging topics in computational intelligence Editor, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Editor, Software Quality Journal Editor, Journal of Systems and Software Editor, Journal of Software Evolution and Process Editor, Automated Software Engineering Journal Editor, Empirical Software Engineering Journal |
Technology Transfer & Patents |
14 inventions licensed to Fortune 500 companies 4 patents |