Scholar
Istvan David
Google Scholar ID: NsRgDcUAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Software Engineering, McMaster University
Citations & Impact
Citations
778
H-index
17
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
56
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Together with Kyanna Dagenais, received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MODELS’25; honored with a Distinguished Reviewer Award at MODELS’25; co-authored a journal article that was nominated for the 2024 Best Paper Award in the Journal of Computer Languages; published an article in TOSEM on the utility of domain modeling assistance with large language models; participated in a panel discussion on testing for sustainability and sustainability of testing at AST 2025.
Research Experience
- Worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Software and Sustainability group at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands with Prof. Ivano Malavolta; and at University of Montréal, Canada, with Prof. Eugene Syriani and Prof. Houari Sahraoui. Also active outside academia, mainly in innovation consulting, most recently as the Head of Innovation for a multinational quality engineering corporation.
Education
- Received his PhD in Computer Science in 2019 from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof. Hans Vangheluwe; worked on streaming model transformations by complex event processing with the VIATRA/IncQuery team at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, headed by Prof. Daniel Varro during his Master’s years.
Background
- Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at McMaster University, Canada, where he leads the Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM) and works as a researcher in the McMaster Centre for Software Certification (McSCert). His research is under the broader umbrella of systems engineering, with a particular interest in advanced digital technology in the overlap of model-driven engineering (MDE) and simulation, digital twins, and AI.
Miscellany
- Active outside of academia, mainly in innovation consulting.
