Agents Day – June 17th, 2025
Room: A-416 (4th Floor, Pavilion Principale– Polytechnique Montréal)
Registeration Desk – Pavillon Principal, 4th floor, Room C-408
| 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 | Development and Evaluation |
| 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 | Powering Workflows |
| 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) – Teaching LLMs Your Subject Matter Expertise |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session III | Interactions and Alignment |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Damien Masson (Université de Montréal, CA) – Beyond Prompts: Designing Powerful Ways to Interact with AI |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Ian Arawjo (Université de Montréal, CA) – Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale |
Intelligent Systems Day – June 18th, 2025
Room: A-416 (4th Floor, Pavilion Principale – Polytechnique Montréal)
Registeration Desk – Pavillon Principal, 4th floor, Room C-408
| 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 IV | Coding and Data-Centric Evaluation |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Weiyi Shang (University of Waterloo, CA) – Evaluating the efficiency of LLM-generated code |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Fabian Wenz (Technical University of Munich, 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 |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session V | LLM-Integrated Use Cases |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Orlando Marquez (ServiceNow, CA) – Flow Generation: When Generative AI Meets Enterprise Workflows |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Nadia Nahar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) – Bridging the Knowledge Boundaries: Enabling Early Collaboration Between Model and Product Teams with LLM Assistants |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Olivier Nguyen (Twitch, USA) – Using LLMs for content moderation at Twitch |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session VI | 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 and McMaster Centre for Software Certification (McSCert), CA) – Digital Twins for Sustainable Systems Engineering |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Special Panel: New Generation AIs and the Sustainability Crises– Moderator: Bentley Oakes
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the interactions between the new generation of AIs (agents, LLMs, cognitive digital twins, etc.) and the looming crises of sustainability (social, societal, environmental, workload, economic, etc.). How can we make our AI more sustainable, and how can we use them to improve sustainability? |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Cocktail reception and posters Location: Atrium, J.-Armand-Bombardier Pavilion, First Floor List of accepted posters |
SEMTL and Tutorials – June 19th, 2025
Room for SEMTL: A-416
Rooms for Tutorials: A-416 and B-415
(4th Floor, Pavilion Principal – Polytechnique Montréal)
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee and assorted pastries |
| Session VI | SEMTL Meeting Come join a meeting of the software engineering researchers in Montréal at SEMTL! Please register and see the full details. |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Welcome message and Keynote – Julien Cohen-Adad – An (Un)Success-Story in the Development of Software for AI and Medical Imaging |
| 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 | Houssem Ben Braiek (Syscodal, CA), Ahmed Haj Yahmed (Syscodal, CA), and Foutse Khomh (Polytechnique Montréal, CA) – VerifIA: Open-source Domain-Aware Verification Tool |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Amine Mhedhbi (Polytechnique Montréal, CA) – Towards Multimodal Database Management Systems |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Lightning talks |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
| Session VII | Tutorials |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Tutorial 1: Hands-on Tutorial on Quantum Software Engineering (Presenters: Anum Khattak, Ning Ma, and Heng Li, room B-415) |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Tutorial 2: From Metrics to Misbehavior: Hands-on with Dynamic Evaluation of LLM Code Generation (Presenter: Vahid Majdinasab, room A-416) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Tutorial 3: Search-Based Test Generation for Autonomous Systems: From Fuzzing to Surrogate-Guided Optimization (Presenter: Dmytro Humeniuk, room B-415) |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Tutorial 4: What is a “Digital Twin” and How Do I Build One? (Presenters: Bentley Oakes and Kérian Fiter, with material from Claudio Gomes, room A-416) |