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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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