Ahmed Hassan recognized as outstanding researcher

KINGSTON,CANADA–Queen’s university researcher Ahmed Hassan (Computing) is one of three recipients of the Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2014 from the Canadian Association of Computer Science.

Dr. Hassan, the Canada Research Chair in Software Analytics and the NSERC/BlackBerry Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale systems, leads the Software Analysis and Intelligence Lab (SAIL) at Queen’s, according to a press release.

The award recognizes that Dr. Hassan is a world leader in the area of Mining Software Repositories (MSR), an area of research that he helped found more than 10 years ago, as well as a leader in the area of Ultra Large Scale Software (ULSS) systems which refer to systems that are utilized by the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and wire¬less networks.

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