Ahmad Abdellatif

Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. Before, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at DASLab in the department of computer science and software engineering at Concordia University. I received my Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab supervision. I obtained my master’s degree in Software Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). My research interests cover a wide range of software engineering related topics, including:

  • Software Chatbots
  • Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence
  • Mining Software Repositories
  • Software Quality
  • Software Ecosystems

Recent Publications

  1. Prompting Matters: Assessing the Effect of Prompting Techniques on LLM-Generated Class Code
    Adam Yuen, John Pangas, Md Mainul Hasan Polash, and Ahmad Abdellatif
    In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2025
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  2. Characterizing Packages for Vulnerability Prediction
    Saviour Owolabi, Francesco Rosati, Ahmad Abdellatif, and Lorenzo De Carli
    In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2025
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  3. Tracing Vulnerabilities in Maven: A Study of CVE Lifecycles and Dependency Networks
    Corey Yang-Smith and Ahmad Abdellatif
    In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2025
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  4. Opportunities and Security Risks of Technical Leverage: A Replication Study on the NPM Ecosystem
    Haya Samaana, Diego Elias Costa, Ahmad Abdellatif, and Emad Shihab
    Empirical Software Engineering, 2025
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