Publications

Academic publications, theses and talks.

• Beyond Correctness: Enhancing Architectural Reasoning in Code LLMs via Scalable Labeling with Agentic Judgment

  Kirill Vasilevski, Ximing Dong, Benjamin Rombaut, Ruochen Deng, Jiahuei (Justina) Lin, Arthur Leung, Dayi Lin, Boyuan Chen, Shaowei Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan

  Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP) '26 · September 2026

  Arxiv

• Software Engineering for Software Makers (SE4SM): Intent and Realization Engineering for Trustworthy Vibe Coding

  Keheliya Gallaba, Zhiyu Fan, Jiahuei (Justina) Lin, Filipe R. Cogo, Benjamin Rombaut, Dayi Lin, Ahmed E. Hassan

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) '26 Technical Briefings · April 2026

  ICSE'26

• From Vibe to Verifiable Spec-Driven Development: A Demo of Intent and Realization Engineering

  Keheliya Gallaba, Zhiyu Fan, Jiahuei (Justina) Lin, Filipe R. Cogo, Benjamin Rombaut, Dayi Lin, Ahmed E. Hassan

  Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Next-Gen Code Development with Collaborative AI Agents (CodeMates), 2026 · January 2026

  AAAI'26 Workshop

• Watson: A Cognitive Observability Framework for the Reasoning of LLM-Powered Agents

  Benjamin Rombaut, Sogol Masoumzadeh, Kirill Vasilevski, Dayi Lin, Ahmed E. Hassan

  Automated Software Engineering (ASE) '25 · November 2025

  ASE'25 Arxiv PDF

• The Hitchhikers Guide to Production-ready Trustworthy Foundation Model powered Software (FMware)

  Kirill Vasilevski, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Gustavo A. Oliva, Benjamin Rombaut, Keheliya Gallaba, Filipe R. Cogo, Jiahuei (Justina) Lin, Dayi Lin, Haoxiang Zhang, Bouyan Chen, Kishanthan Thangarajah, Ahmed E. Hassan, Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang

  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) '25 · August 2025

  KDD'25 Arxiv PDF

• A Tutorial on Software Engineering for FMware

  Filipe R. Cogo, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Dayi Lin, Keheliya Gallaba, Benjamin Rombaut, Gustavo Oliva, Jiahuei (Justina) Lin, Kirill Vasilevski, Ahmed E. Hassan

  Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) Companion '25 · July 2025

  FSE'25

• AIware Observability

  Benjamin Rombaut

  AIware Leadership Bootcamp 2024 & Mini Bootcamp 2025 · November 2024

  AIware Leadership Bootcamp'24 AIware Mini Bootcamp'25 Slides Video

• Prompting with DSPy - Hands On Tutorial

  Benjamin Rombaut

  AIware Leadership Bootcamp 2024 · November 2024

  AIware Leadership Bootcamp'24 Video

• Lessons learned from exploring the overhead introduced by the Greenkeeper dependency bot

  Benjamin Rombaut

  Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), Montreal, Canada · May 2022

  CSER '22 Slides

• Studying the overhead and crowd-sourced risk assessment strategy of dependency management bots

  Benjamin Rombaut

  Queen's University, Master's Thesis · May 2022

  Queen's PDF

• There's no such thing as a free lunch: Lessons learned from exploring the overhead introduced by the Greenkeeper dependency bot in npm

  Benjamin Rombaut, Filipe R. Cogo, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan

  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) · February 2022

  TOSEM ResearchGate PDF

Unpublished Works

These have not appeared anywhere. They are listed for completeness.

• An Empirical Study of Library Usage and Dependency in Deep Learning Frameworks

  Mohamed Raed El aoun, Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon, Benjamin Rombaut, Foutse Khomh, Ahmed E. Hassan

  November 2022

  Arxiv

• Leveraging the crowd for dependency management: An empirical study on the Dependabot compatibility score

  Benjamin Rombaut, Filipe R. Cogo, Ahmed E. Hassan

  March 2022

  Arxiv PDF