Sogol Masoumzadeh

PhD Candidate in Software Engineering | Ex. Associate LLM Engineer (PhD Research Intern) @ HUAWEI Canada

Email: sogol.masoumzadeh@mail.mcgill.ca

Institution: [McGill University], [Electrical and Computer Engineering]

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About Me

I am a last year PhD Candidate at McGill University (Canada), advised by Prof. Lili Wei, Prof. Shane McIntosh (University of Waterloo, Canada), and Prof. Dániel Varró (Linköping University, Sweden), working on software defect detection and automatic program repair, specifically focusing on emergent, low-resource software artifacts.

From August 2024 to March 2026, I was a full-time PhD research intern with the "Centre for Software Excellence" (directed by Prof. Ahmed E. Hassan) at HUAWEI Canada. During my internship I was involved in cutting-edge research for AI4SE and SE4AI topics, leading to two major publications in top-tier venues and also two patent applications.

Prior to my PhD, I completed my M.Sc. degree at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 2020, where I was the front runner for the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, and my B.Sc. degree at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 2017, where I graduated with honors and as the Salutatorian.

My work has been published in top-tier venues including TSE, TOSEM, ASE, and SANER.

Research Interests

AI4SE
SE4AI
Software Defect Detection
Automated Program Repair (APR)

Education

PhD in Software Engineering, McGill University, (To graduate in spring 2026!)
Advisors: Porf. Lili Wei, Prof. Shane McIntosh, and Prof. Dániel Várro
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Program, The University of Manitoba, 2020
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bioelectrics, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), 2017

News

[March 2026] We will be in Limassol, Cyprus for SANER 2026, from March 17 to March 20! Come and meet us and let's talk vulnerability detection for low-resource software artifacts!

[Dec 2025] Our latest paper just got accepted for publication in SANER 2026!

[Nov 2025] Received 1^st-place Award at Student Research Competition, ASE 2025!

[Nov 2025] Arrived in Seuol, Sounth Korea, for ASE 2025, with three papers to be presented at the conference!

Selected Publications

For a complete list, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

2025

SeBERTis: A Framework for Producing Classifiers of Security-Related Issue Reports

Sogol Masoumzadeh, Yufei Li, Shane McIntosh, Dániel Várro, Lili Wei

SANER 2026, Limassol, Cyprus

[arXiv]

Towards Reliable Generation of Executable Workflows by Foundation Models

Sogol Masoumzadeh, Keheliya Gallaba, Dayi Lin, Ahemd E. Hassan

TOSEM (Under Review)

[arXiv]

Detecting Vulnerabilities from Issue Reports for Internet-of-Things

Sogol Masoumzadeh

ASE 2025 (1st-place Award, Student Research Competion)

[arXiv]

Watson: A Cognitive Observability Framework for the Reasoning of Foundation Model-Powered Agents

Benjamin Rombaut, Sogol Masoumzadeh, Kirill Vasilevski, Dayi Lin, Ahemd E. Hassan

ASE 2025, Seoul, South Korea

[arXiv]

Teaching Assistant

ECSE 429 - Software Validation, 2021—2023, McGill University
ECSE 250 - Fundamentals of Software Developement, 2023, McGill University
COMP 3170 - Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures, 2019, The University of Manitoba

Professional Service

Reviewing

Journal Reviewer

TSE: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
SoSyM: Software and Systems Modeling

Conference Reviewer

AIware 2026: International Conference on AI-powered Software

Mentoring

Mentored five undergraduate students at McGill University for their final captsone project in 2022.