MsSCert our team

Dr. Paige’s expertise is in Model-Based Systems and Software Engineering and technology transfer, with a particular focus on safety-critical systems and large-scale software deployment. He has published extensively on these and related topics, and is involved with a number of open-source projects on Model-Driven Engineering. He is on the editorial board for Springer’s Software and Systems Modeling, Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering, and the platinum open-access JOT Journal.

With 45 years’ experience in both industry and academia, Dr. Wassyng is a sought-after speaker, consultant and thought leader in the certification of software-intensive systems, rigorous approaches to the development of safety-critical software and the use of assurance case templates. He is an expert on functional safety and hazard analysis of safety-critical systems. He was a co-founder of McSCert and was its inaugural Director. He was also a co-founder of the Software Certification Consortium, and has been the chair of the steering committee since its inception.

Dr. Vera Pantelic’s main research interests include development and certification of safety-critical software systems and model-based development. She brings extensive experience in tool-supported model-based design of automotive software to this project, as well as knowledge of ISO 26262 compliance. Vera is a reviewer for a number of journals, including: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and International journal of Control and conferences, including the International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD), and the International conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD).

Computer Scientist educated as a mathematician, worked as a software engineer in industry for 11 years. Currently working on generative programming, formalized mathematics, approaches to (very) long term software engineering, and programming language theory.

Sebastien Mosser’s research interests are related to software engineering, and more specifically, scalable software composition, domain-specific languages and modelling. In addition, Sebastien applies his research to various domains such as cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, and, more recently, source code and micro-services architecture. His research has been conducted closely with industrial partners and has led to several technological transfers. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université de Nice (France) in 2010. He was a postdoctoral student at Inria Lille-Nord Europe in 2011 before joining SINTEF (Oslo, Norway) as a research scientist. He then joined Université Côte d’Azur in 2012, where he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor in charge of the Master of Software Architecture. Before joining McMaster University, he was an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at Université du Québec à Montréal from 2019 to 2021.

Dr. Victor Bandur received his BS and MASc degrees from McMaster University. He received his PhD from the University of York, UK in the area of three-valued logics and software specification. He has researched safety assurance at the University of York and software aspects of cyber-physical systems at Aarhus University, Denmark. He joined McSCert in 2018 as Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Bandur is currently Principal Research Engineer, focusing on the next generation of in-vehicle computer and network architectures.

Ms. Alzaeim brings over 15 years of international experience in research operations and administration. She has successfully supported the development and implementation of over 250 research projects fostering collaborations among academic research institutions, industries, and not-for-profit organizations. From project scoping to commercialization, Ms. Alzaeim ensures projects are completed on time, on budget, with the highest quality standards, and in full compliance with funding agencies’ requirements. Her academic background spans engineering, social science, and business administration, which uniquely positions her to support multidisciplinary research teams. She is a certified project manager and has postgraduate degrees from HEC Paris (Qatar), King’s College London (UK) and Leuphana Universität (Germany).