About Me

Since October 2024 I am an employee of Cordis, a company providing low-code software solution for designing machine control software. As a senion software architect, I am leading the development of the modelling front-end at the Málaga branch of Cordis at the Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía. I am also an associate member of ITIS Software, the software engineering institute of the University of Malaga. Previously, i.e. from July 2023 to August 2024, I held a position there as a contracted researcher. And before that I was a full professor at the School of Computer Science of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where I headed the Software Composition and Reuse (SCORE) lab for over 22 years. I hold an engineering diploma and a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. I also was/am a visiting professor at the University of Luxemburg, at IRISA Rennes, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Université Côte d’Azur.

My main area of expertise is software engineering, and in particular model-driven engineering. I have for the last decade concentrated on investigating paradigms, language features and technologies that allow software engineers to build reusable software artefacts. At the programming and modelling language level I am therefore interested in modularity (interfaces, visibility), separation of concerns, composition techniques (e.g., aspect-orientation), and exceptions. I have also done work in fault tolerance and distributed systems, in particular software fault tolerance, transaction support, and massively multiplayer games. Most recently, I have worked a lot on modelling assistants, and even in my current job I am working on an AI-enabled modelling assistant for machine control software design. You can check out my research pages for more details on current and past projects related to these topics.

Address

Cordis Suite Avda. Juan López de Peñalver 17 3a planta - Ala A, 2 Izq. Málaga Málaga 29590 Spain