Bentley Oakes

Bentley Oakes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. (2018) and M.Sc. (2015) from McGill University, and a B.Sc. (2013) from the University of Manitoba. His research focuses on Digital Twins, Model Transformations, and Knowledge Representation for cyber-physical systems.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
• M.Sc. in Science, McGill University, Canada
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada

His work bridges Model-Driven Engineering and Artificial Intelligence to advance the rigorous development of digital twins. Key research areas include:

• Digital Twin Engineering: Frameworks for systematic development, reporting, and validation.
• Knowledge Representation: Ontologies and contracts for modeling domain expertise.
• Model Transformations: Symbolic execution and debugging of ATL/DSLTrans transformations.
• Verification: Formal methods for cyber-physical systems and co-simulations.

Oakes has published extensively in MODELS, MSR, TOSEM, and SoSyM. His recent studies on rationale extraction in open-source software and DevOps approaches for built assets highlight interdisciplinary innovations.

He has been recognized for Outstanding Reviewing Contributions, receiving multiple Best Reviewer Awards at leading software engineering venues.

At Polytechnique Montréal, he teaches courses such as:

• INF6900AE: Scientific and Technical Communication I
• INF7900AE: Scientific and Technical Communication II
• LOG6953FE / LOG6310E: Digital Twin Engineering
• LOG8371E: Software Quality Engineering