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
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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 |