2025 Program 

Istvan David (McMaster University, CA)Time in Eastern Time (US & Canada).

June 17, 2025

Room: M-1010 (1st Floor, Lassonde Pavilion – Polytechnique Montréal)

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and assorted pastries
9:00 – 9:30 SEMLA 2025 Opening Session Opening by Prof. Foutse Khomh
9:30 – 10:30 Eric Wang (Simular, USA) – Building AI Agents that Reason and Act Like Humans
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session I Agents (Systems & Evaluations)
11:00 – 11:30 Alexandre Lacoste (ServiceNow, CA) – Autonomous UI Agents: Open-Source Tools, Best Practices, and Safety
11:30 – 12:00 Royal Sequeira (Georgian, CA) – Voice AI Agents: technology, players, problems, and trends
12:00 – 12:30 Rapid Fire Networking Rendezvous 🤖
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Session II Agents in Action – Empowering Software Workflows, Interfaces, and Data Systems
14:00 – 14:30 Peter Chen (Concordia University, CA) – Redefining Team Collaboration: Harnessing LLM Agents for Next-Gen Software Engineering
14:30 – 15:00 Daniel Jaroslawicz (Distyl AI, USA)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00 Ian Arawjo (Université de Montréal, CA) – Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale

June 18, 2025

Room: M-1510 (1st Floor, Lassonde Pavilion – Polytechnique Montréal)

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and assorted pastries
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote – Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore, SG) – AutoCodeRover: from research on automatic programming to spinoff acquisition
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
Session III LLMs for Coding & Data-Centric Tasks
10:30 – 11:00 Weiyi Shang (University of Waterloo, CA) – Evaluating the efficiency of LLM-generated code
11:00 – 11:30 Fabian Wenz (Celonis, DE) – An Annotation System for Rapid Text-to-SQL Benchmark Curation
11:30 – 12:00 Effy Li (CWI, NL) – Efficient Use of LLMs for Data Preparation
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Session IV LLM-Integrated Use Cases
14:00 – 14:30 Damien Masson (Université de Montréal, CA) – Beyond Prompts: Designing Powerful Ways to Interact with AI
14:30 – 15:00 Orlando Marquez (ServiceNow, CA)
15:00 – 15:30 Olivier Nguyen (Twitch, USA) – Using LLMs for content moderation at Twitch
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Session V Digital Twins and Sustainability
16:00 – 16:30 Jennifer McArthur (Toronto Metropolitan University, CA) – Cognitive Digital Twins for Decarbonization – Integrating AI with Building Technologies
16:30 – 17:00 Istvan David (McMaster University, CA) – Digital Twins for Engineering Complex and Sustainable Systems
17:00 – 17:30 Special Panel: Sustainability – Moderator: Bentley Oakes

  • Jennifer McArthur (Toronto Metropolitan University, CA)
  • Istvan David (McMaster University, CA)
  • Emmanuel Thepie Fapi (Ericsson, CA)

June 19, 2025

Room: M-1510 (1st Floor, Lassonde Pavilion – Polytechnique Montréal)

Room for Session VII: B-543 and B-415 (5th Floor, Principal Pavilion – Polytechnique Montréal)

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and assorted pastries
Session VI  Talks & Tutorials – SEMTL Meeting
9:00 – 10:00 Welcome message and keynote
10:00 – 10:20 Lina Marsso (Polytechnique Montréal, CA) – Toward Trustworthy AI-Based Systems
10:25 – 10:40 Lightning talks
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:20 Lili Wei (McGill University, CA) – How Far are Android App Secrets from Being Stolen?
11:25 – 11:45 Amine Mhedhbi (Polytechnique Montréal, CA) – Data and Information Management
11:50 – 12:10 Nadia Nahar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) – Bridging the Knowledge Boundaries: Enabling Early Collaboration Between Model and Product Teams with LLM Assistants
12:15 – 12:30 Lightning talks
12:30 – 14:00 Social Event Break
Session VII Talks & Tutorials – SEMTL Meeting
14:00 – 15:30 Tutorials