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Marouane
Kessentini
Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science
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  • College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Computer and Information Science
marouane@umich.edu
313-583-6366
204 CIS
4901 Evergreen Rd.
Dearborn, MI 48128
Tuesday and Friday 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Teaching Areas:

  • Computer and Information Science
  • Software Engineering

Research Areas:

  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning, Optimization, and Intelligent Systems
  • Operations Research and Decision Science
  • Software Engineering

Biography and Education

Education

Ph.D., University of Montreal

M.Sc., INRETS-Paris (France) and University of Tunis (Tunisia)

B.Sc., University of Tunis

Teaching and Research

Courses Taught

CIS 376 - Software Engineering II

Selected Publications

  1. Paul W. McBurney, Siyuan Jiang, Marouane Kessentini, Nicholas A. Kraft, Ameer Armaly, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Collin McMillan. "Towards Prioritizing Documentation Effort." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 44(9):897-913, 2018.
  2. Vahid Alizadeh, Marouane Kessentini. "Reducing interactive refactoring effort via clustering-based multi-objective search." In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pp. 464-474, 2018
  3. Martin Fleck, Javier Troya, Marouane Kessentini, Manuel Wimmer and Bader Alkhazi. “Model Transformation Modularization as a Many-Objective Opti- mization Problem.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 43(11):1009-1032, 2017.
  4. Ali Ouni, Marouane Kessentini, Katsuro Inoue, and Mel Cinnide. “Search-Based Web Services Anti-patterns Detection.” IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 10(4):603-617, 2017  (Journal First Award).
  5. Hanzhang Wang, Marouane Kessentini, and Ali Ouni. “Interactive Web Services Refactoring.” IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), To Appear, 2017.
  6. Marouane Kessentini, Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni and Mel Cinnide. “An Interactive and Dynamic Search-Based Approach to Software Refactoring Recommendations.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), To Appear, 2017.
  7. Hanzhang Wang,  and Marouane Kessentini. Improving Web Services Design Quality Using Dimensionality Reduction Techniques.  In Proceedings of the ICSOC 2017 - The 15th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, 2017 (acceptance rate : 17% )
  8. Martin Fleck, Bader Alkhazi, Marouane Kessentini, and Manuel Wimmer. “Model Transformation Modularization as a Many-Objective Optimization Problem.” FSE2017, 2017 (acceptance rate : 16% )
  9. Paul W. McBurney, Siyuan Jiang, Marouane Kessentini, Nicholas A. Kraft, Wiem Mkaouer, and Collin McMillan. “Towards Prioritizing Documentation Effort.” FSE2017, 2017 (acceptance rate : 16% )
  10. Paul W. McBurney, Siyuan Jiang, Marouane Kessentini, Nicholas A.  Kraft, Wiem Mkaouer, and Collin McMillan. “Towards Prioritizing Documentation Effort.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), To Appear, 2016.
  11. Ouni Ali, Marouane Kessentini, Houari Sahraoui and Katsuro Inoue. “Multi- Criteria Software Refactoring: An Industrial Case Study.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 25(3): 23:1-23:53, 2016.
  12. Ouni Ali, Marouane Kessentini, Mel  Cinnide and Katsuro Inoue.  “ A Multi- Objective  Refactoring Approach  to  Introduce  Design  Patterns  and  Fix  Anti-Patterns.” Journal of Software Evolution and Process, To Appear, 2016.
  13. Mkaouer Wiem, Marouane Kessentini, Adnan Shaout, Slim Bechikh, Kalyanmoy Deb, and Ali Ouni. “Many-Objective Software Remodularization using NSGA-III.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol 24, no. 3, pp 17-52, 2015 (Journal First Award).
  14. Sahin Dilan, Marouane Kessentini, Slim Bechikh, and Kalyanmoy Deb. “Code- Smell Detection as a Bilevel Problem.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol 24, No. 1, pp. 1-45, 2014.
  15. Wael Kessentini, Marouane Kessentini, Houari Sahraoui, Slim Bechikh, and Ali Ouni.  “A Cooperative Parallel Search-Based Software Engineering Approach for Code-Smells Detection.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol 40, Issue 9, pp 841-861, 2014.

Awards and Recognition

  • 2019 Distinguished Tunisian Diaspora Research Award
  • 2019 Beit al-Hikma Distinguished Early Career Research Award
  • 2018 NSF Research Grant (Award #1835747)
  • 2018 Best Paper Award, 9th Brazilian Workshop on Search-Based Software Engineering
  • 2018 Tunisia's Presidential Distinguished Researcher Award, Tunisian President Office & Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
  • 2018 Faculty Excellence in Research Award, CECS, University of Michigan - Dearborn
  • 2018 Distinguished Digital Educational Award, University of Michigan - Dearborn
  • 2017 Two Journal First Awards, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
  • 2017 Two Journal First Awards, Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE)
  • 2017 Sema Inc. Research Grant
  • 2017 NRF-Singapore Research Grant
  • 2016 Journal First Award, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
  • 2016 NSF Grants (Grant#s: IIP-1661422, CBET-1643479, CCF-1649468)
  • 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Michigan - Dearborn
  • 2015 Ford Research Grant
  • 2015 Journal First Award, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodologies
  • 2014 NSF Grant (Grant#: CCF-1446952)
  • 2010 Best Paper Awards including TOSEM'10, CASCON'10, MPM'10, and BMFA'10
  • 2008-2014 Best Paper Runner-Ups including GEOCO'14, MODELS'08, ASE'10, and BMFA'10
  • 2012 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award

History

Member for
3 years 5 months
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