Professor Foutse Khomh

Advisory Board Member

Current Positions: Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Full Professor of Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy Intelligent Software Systems; Canada CIFAR AI Chair; and Associate Academic Member, Mila – Quebec AI Institute.
Areas of Expertise: Software engineering, trustworthy artificial intelligence, machine-learning systems, cloud engineering, software quality assurance, cybersecurity and dependable AI.

Profile

Professor Foutse Khomh is an internationally recognized software-engineering and artificial-intelligence scholar. His research advances the quality, reliability, security and maintainability of software and machine-learning systems. At Polytechnique Montréal, he combines institutional research leadership with work on trustworthy intelligent systems, cloud engineering and software analytics. He is also Scientific Co-Director responsible for scientific and international activities at IVADO. As a member of CARSA’s Advisory Board, Professor Khomh provides strategic academic guidance and expert review in software engineering, trustworthy AI, machine-learning systems, cybersecurity and emerging digital technologies.

Selected Accomplishments and Honours

  • Elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2026.
  • Recipient of the NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship.
  • Recipient of the CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize.
  • Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society TCSE New Directions Award.
  • Recipient of Polytechnique Montréal’s Excellence in Research and Innovation Award.
  • Recipient of the 2025 Honoris Genius Award for Engineering Research or Teaching from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec.
  • Recipient of the ADRIQ–RSRI Innovation Award.
  • Recipient of four Ten-Year Most Influential Paper Awards.
  • Recipient of 11 Best or Distinguished Paper Awards and two Best Journal Paper of the Year Awards.
  • Co-founder of the NSERC CREATE SE4AI training program.
  • Senior Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and an editorial contributor to leading software-engineering journals.
  • Senior Member of the IEEE.
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