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GEMinAI 2026-27 Program Launch

Please join us on October 27th as we launch the 2026-27 GEMinAI Program! Meet your mentor/mentee match, enjoy coffee and conversations, and learn more about how GEMinAI supports women and gender diverse students from all disciplines who will engage with AI. Read More

Trainee Talks - Sept 30, 2026

On Wednesday, September 30th at 3:00 PM EDT, we hosted a research talk featuring two PhD candidates who will be graduating soon. Concordia University student Fazle Rabbi presented his work, “How Robust is LLM Code Generation Across Programming Languages?” Read More

Trainee Talks - July 17, 2026

On Friday, July 17 at 10 AM, CREATE SE4AI hosted another edition of Trainee Talks, featuring MASc candidate Kawsar Ahmed Bhuiyan, a member of the REALISE Lab at Concordia University under the supervision of Prof. Diego Elias Costa. Kawsar presented his work titled "Beyond Compliance: A Large-scale Study on the Completeness and Consistency of the GitHub SBOMs." Read More

CREATE SE4AI Annual Retreat - July 4, 2026

The 5th annual CREATE SE4AI Retreat was held on Saturday, July 4, 2026, at the Concordia University Conference Centre, bringing together software engineering graduate students from Concordia University, Polytechnique Montréal, and Queen's University for a full day of learning, collaboration, and networking. Read More

Trainee Talks - June 18, 2026

On Thursday, June 18th at 10:00 AM, we held another edition of CREATE Trainee Talks.

This edition showcased the research of two Master’s students who are preparing to graduate. Read More

Indigenous Engagement for Researchers - May 14, 2026

Discover how Indigenous communities are shaping and transforming research practices, and why intentional, relationship-based engagement is essential to impactful research. Read More

Trainee Talks - May 12, 2026

On Tuesday, May 12th at 11:00 AM, we hosted the next edition of Trainee Talks featuring two CREATE Master’s trainees from Concordia University who are preparing to graduate. Read More

Trainee Talks - Mar 26, 2026

On Thursday March 26th at 10:00AM, we heard from two CREATE Master's trainees:
Liam Johnston, MSc candidate from Queen's University, shared his work on LabelMate: An LLM-driven Framework for Refined Issue Report Labeling. Read More

Trainee Talks - Feb 23, 2026

On Monday Feb. 23rd at 11:00 AM, 2 PhD students from Queen’s University and Concordia University presented their current research.
Yu Shi, PhD candidate from Queen's University, shared his work From HAFix to HAFixAgent: History-Aware Bug Fixing with LLMs and Agents. Read More

Trainee Talks - Jan 30, 2026

On Friday, January 30th at 11:00 AM, we heard from two MSc students at Polytechnique Montréal under the supervision of Prof. Foutse Khomh.
Mo Malekpour presented his research on Enhancing Text-to-SQL Systems through LLM Routing and Effective Evaluation. Read More

Advancing Gender-Inclusive AI through the GEMinAI Program

CREATE SE4AI presented a workshop at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing (CASCON 2025) on Advancing Gender-Inclusive AI through the GEMinAI Program. Using the Gender Equity Mentoring in AI (GEMinAI) program as a successful use case Read More

CREATE Workshops: Integrating EDI in Research - Oct 23 & 30, 2025

We once again offered the workshops "From Awareness to Action: Integrating EDI in Research" through Concordia's Equity Office in October. Read More

Guest Lecture Talk - Oct 9, 2025

Talk Title: Bridging the World with Words: Multilingual and Multicultural Natural Language Processing.

Dr. Lee gave a guest lecture talk in Prof. Jinqiu Yang's graduate course on Thursday, October 9th, starting at 2:45pm. Read More

CREATE SE4AI Industry Talks - Oct 3, 2025

We kicked off the fall semester with a brand new edition of Industry Talks!
From PoC to Production: Engineering AI for Regulated Domains
On Friday, Oct 3, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT (Montreal time). Read More

CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks - Aug 6, 2025

On Wednesday, August 6th at 11:00AM EDT, we held a special Summer Edition of Trainee Talks. We heard from two Concordia University MASc candidates who were preparing for their thesis defenses. Read More

CREATE SE4AI Academic Talk - Jun 25, 2025

On June 25th, Dr. James C Davis of Purdue University delivered an engaging academic talk to CREATE students on "Reusing Pre-Trained Neural Networks: Read More

GEMinAI Spring Fling - May 27, 2025

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GEMinAI program mentees, industry mentors and guests gathered at Concordia on May 27th to celebrate the end of another successful year of connections and shared growth through mentorship. Mentors and mentees shared inspiring stories and outcomes from their mentoring journey. Read More

CREATE Annual Retreat – April 26, 2025

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Our 4th annual CREATE SE4AI Retreat was held on April 26, 2025 in Ottawa. Trainees gathered at Hotel Le Germain for a buffet lunch, followed by an afternoon of networking and brainstorming activities, kicking off a busy week at ICSE 2025. Read More

Trainee Talks - March 25, 2025

On Tuesday, March 25th, at 11:00 AM EDT, we welcomed Queen’s University Ph.D. student Adekunle Ajibode. Adekunle shared his research on “Towards Semantic Versioning of Open Pre-trained Language Model Releases on Hugging Face,” which was recently. Read More

Careers in AI for All Disciplines - Mar 4, 2025

On Tuesday, March 4th students from all disciplines explored how they can build a career in AI. A panel of technical and non-technical industry professionals shared their insights on pathways to careers in AI, the value of interdisciplinary collaboration, breaking barriers to inequities, and the current job market and future opportunities in this space. Read More

CREATE Trainee Talks - Feb 26, 2025

On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, we had the pleasure of hosting two brilliant minds for our Trainee Talks webinar series. Altaf Allah Abbassi, an M.Sc. student at Polytechnique Montréal, presented "ReCatcher: Revealing LLM4Code Capabilities Divergence." Following that, Musfiqur Rahman, a Ph.D. student at Concordia University, Read More

Industry Talks - Jan 23rd, 2025

On January 23, 2025 at 11:00AM EST CREATE SE4AI hosted an engaging Industry Talk featuring Dr. Anne Mercier, Director of Innovation for Algorithms and AI at GIRO Inc. Dr. Mercier shared insights on AI and operations research tools powering HASTUS software, which is used globally. Read More

Trainee Talks - Dec 6th, 2024

On Friday, December 6th, 2024, two PhD students from Polytechnique Montréal, Iren Mazloomzadeh and Yang Liu, presented their research as part of CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks. Iren shared insights from her recently published paper, "Reputation Gaming in Crowd Technical Knowledge Sharing". Read More

Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (CAN-CWIC 2024)

On October 25-26, 2024, 3 CREATE trainees traveled to North York, ON to take part in the Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. The CAN-CWIC Conference is dedicated to empowering women in the field of computing, and brings together leaders in research, industry, and education from across Canada for networking, learning, sharing and mentoring. Read More

Trainee Talks - October 16th, 2024

The first CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks of the fall 2024 semester was held on October 16. During this session, Master's candidate Lin Ling presented her research titled "Bias Unveiled: Investigating Social Bias in LLM-Generated Code". Following her presentation, Doctoral candidate Junjie Li shared his study on "An Exploratory Study on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Secure Code Generation". Read More

GEMinAI Mixer

CREATE SE4AI and the Applied AI Institute successfully launched the second year of the Gender Equity Mentoring in AI (GEMinAI) program on Monday, October 7, 2024. The dynamic networking event celebrated gender-diverse AI professionals and students, providing an opportunity for students to meet each other and connect with mentors participating in the program. Read More

CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks Summer 2024 Edition

In this special summer edition of Trainee Talks on Friday, July 19th, 2024, we heard from 2 talented CREATE trainees. Read More

CREATE SE4AI Program Retreat - June 9, 2024

Our 3rd annual CREATE SE4AI Program Retreat was held in Kingston, ON on June 9th. 50 students from the 4 partner institutions enjoyed an afternoon of networking, brainstorming, group discussions and research presentations with an inspiring view of the waterfront. A big thank you to all who attended and congratulations to the graduates! Read More

Awareness to Action: Integrating Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Research

Join us for a 2-part workshop series “Awareness to Action: Integrating Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in Research” on May 9th and 16th at 10:00AM EDT. Through open and interactive discussions, we will explore equity concepts and principles and provide tools tools to help foster a research environment that is both enriching and accessible to diverse perspectives. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - May 28, 2024

In the May 28, 2024 edition of CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks, we heard from Queen's University Master's students Jiawen Liu and Shenyu Zheng. Jiawen shared her work on “Understanding Open-Source Contributor Profiles in Popular Machine Learning Libraries.” Read More

GEMinAI Program Storytelling Wrap-up Event - May 24, 2024

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The Gender Equity Mentoring in AI (GEMinAI) Program celebrated the end of a successful first year on May 24th. Mentors and mentees from the program's inaugural cohort gathered at 4th Space at Concordia to share stories of their mentoring journey. Jasbir Kooner, MBA (Concordia) and Director, IT and Cybersecurity at Englobe was one of the 13 industry mentors who participated in GEMinAI. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - April 29, 2024

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We hosted our Trainee Talks webinar on Monday, April 29th, 2024. During the session, we had the privilege of hearing from Amanda Kolopanis, a Software Engineering Master's student at Concordia University, and Jaskirat Singh, a Software Engineering Master's student at Queen's University. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - March 25, 2024

We hosted our Trainee Talks webinar on Monday, March 25th, 2024. It was a great session where we had the opportunity to hear from talented individuals. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - February 27, 2024

Our first Trainee Talks of 2024 was held on Tuesday, February 27th. We welcomed Queen's University Master's student Akshat Malik, who presented his work on Empirical Evaluation of Graph-Anonymized Metrics for JIT Defect Prediction. Read More

Future of AI Networking Event

CREATE SE4AI has partnered with the Montréal chapter of Women in AI & Robotics and Concordia's Applied AI Institute to host a speaker and networking event on the Future of AI on Thursday Nov. 30th. Read More

FM + SE School in Mexico City November 16-17, 2023 ​

Professors Hassan, Khomh and Adams hosted a 2-day conference in Mexico City on Foundational Models and Software Engineering. Read More

CAN-CWiC Conference in Toronto

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5 CREATE trainees attended the annual Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (CAN-CWiC) in Toronto, ON, from October 20-21, 2023. This annual conference provides career-oriented workshops. Read More

GEMinAI Mentoring Program Launch October 19, 2023

The Gender Equity Mentoring in AI (GEMinAI) program was launched on Oct. 19, 2023 as a joint initiative between CREATE SE4AI and Concordia’s Applied AI Institute. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - September 25, 2023

Trainee Talks Webinar - September 25, 2023
Our CREATE SE4AI community came together on September 25th, 2023 for the first Trainee Talks of the fall semester. We heard Queen's Master's candidate Divya Kamath present her thesis research on Pragmatic Approaches to Schedule Less Builds in Continuous Integration. Then, Mohayeminul Islam, PhD student from University of Alberta shared his work on Characterizing Python Library Migrations. Read More

Industry Talks Webinar - April 25, 2023

CREATE SE4AI is pleased to present Patrick Mesana, Consultant at National Bank of Canada and PhD Candidate at HEC, who spoke on Balancing Data Valorization and Privacy: Industry Challenges and Opportunities. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - April 3rd, 2023

Trainee Talks Webinar - April 3rd, 2023
The Spring Trainee Talks webinar was a huge success and we were pleased to have 27 participants join!. Read More

Women in Engineering (WIE) - March 18, 2023

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On March 18th , CREATE SE4AI took part in WIE Inspire WIE Empower, an annual event hosted by the Women in Engineering (WIE) student association at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - February 27, 2023

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In the first Trainee Talks webinar of 2023, Pierre-Olivier Côté, a Master's student at Polytechnique Montréal spoke about Quality Issues in Machine Learning Software Systems. Immediately following, University of Alberta PhD student Akalanka Galappaththi presented his work. Read More

Industry Talks Webinar - February 10, 2023

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Dr. Gabor Melli, VP of Engineering, AI/ML at San Francisco-based Medable joined us for our first industry talk webinar of 2023! Gabor Melli is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of leading teams and driving positive change. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - December 13, 2022

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Trainee Talks is a monthly webinar series featuring CREATE SE4AI trainees sharing their research topics in software engineering and AI. Read More

Industry Talks Webinar - November 18, 2022

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CREATE SE4AI is pleased to present AI Adoption in Telecom Networks as part of our Industry Talks webinar series. Read More

Trainee Talks Webinar - November 4, 2022

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Topics: Dependency Management and Testing of AI-based Software Systems Our monthly CREATE SE4AI Trainee Talks webinar series kicked off with 2 graduate Software Engineering students presenting their research. Read More

CREATE SE4AI Retreat - June 3, 2022

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Our 1st annual CREATE SE4AI Program Retreat is a wrap! It was an inspiring day of celebrating our collective accomplishments and exchanging ideas amongst an amazing team of students, professors and industry partners, live and in person at the Chateau Vaudreuil. The future is so bright for this group of talented trainees, they’re gonna need shades. Read More

Guest Speaker Webinar - April 12, 2022

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CREATE SE4AI trainees, profs and partners enjoyed a webinar presented by Olivier Blais, co-founder and VP of Decision Science at Moov AI in Montréal. Olivier spoke about "Delivering High Quality Machine Learning Models". Read More

Guest Speaker Webinar - February 3, 2022

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CREATE SE4AI hosted a webinar by Sumon Biswas, PhD Candidate at Iowa State University on "Understanding and Reasoning Fairness of Machine Learning Pipeline". Read More