The next meeting of the SEMTL community will be held on Monday, September 22nd, 2025, 9:00 AM, at the Université de Montréal.
Registration
Please register for the meeting and the social event using this form.
Program
- 09:00-10:00: Keynote by Prof. Alex Hernandez-Garcia
Title: “Generative and active machine learning for scientific discoveries”. Abstract: “Science plays a fundamental role in tackling the most pressing challenges for humanity, such as the climate crisis, the threat of pandemics and antibiotic resistance. Meanwhile, the increasing capacity to generate large amounts of data, the progress in computer and software engineering and the maturity of machine learning methods offer an excellent opportunity to assist scientific progress. In this talk, I would like to offer an overview of how generative modelling and active learning can be used to assist scientific discovery research. In particular, the focus will be on the potential of GFlowNets as a flexible generative model for science. I will offer a gentle introduction to GFlowNets and present how we have adapted this method to incorporate domain knowledge from crystallography, physics and chemistry in the form of hard constraints, to efficiently discover new materials with desirable properties. I will also present our recent algorithm for multi-fidelity active learning with GFlowNets, designed to efficiently explore combinatorially large, high-dimensional and mixed spaces (discrete and continuous), inspired by challenges in materials and drug discovery.”
- 10:00-10:30: Coffee Break
- 10:30-11:30: Paper presentations
- Kevin Delcourt - “Engineering Digital Twins for AI-Assisted Scientific Discovery: Case of Plasma-Enhanced Deposition”
- Mouna Dhaouadi - “Automated Extraction and Analysis of Developer’s Rationale in Open Source Software”
- Louis Edouard - “Modeling with Gentleman: A Web-based Projectional Editor”
- Abdelhamid Rouatbi - “DTChecker: A Real-Time Signal Monitoring and Property Specification Tool for Digital Twins”
- Imen Jaoua - “Combining Large Language Models with Static Analyzers for Code Review Generation”
- 11:30-12:00: Short talk by Prof. Houari Sahraoui - “Project of the creation of the Interuniversity Research Center on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering”.
Location
Carrefour des arts et des sciences (C-3061 Pavillon Lionel Groulx) 3150 rue Jean Brillant, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1N8
Instructions: Once you enter the building from this door, take the elevator on your left or the stairs next to it; go to the 3rd floor; you should come out in front of the meeting room.
Social Event
We will also go for lunch together after the meeting at Mon Ami Korean BBQ.