Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

Mehrdad Sabetzadeh is a Full Professor and Co-director of the Sedna Research Lab at the University of Ottawa's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and has held roles at institutions like Simula Research Lab and the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on software engineering, requirements engineering, AI applications, and legal compliance, with industry collaborations across sectors like finance, energy, and automotive. He leads over $7M in industry-funded projects and co-developed tools like PLEDGE, NARCIA, and Modus. Teaching includes graduate courses on NLP/ML in software engineering and undergraduate computing.

Research emphasizes applying AI (NLP, ML) to software challenges, with a focus on IoT and safety-critical systems. Key contributions include frameworks for legal compliance simulation (e.g., GDPR), automated requirement analysis, and safety evidence management. His work bridges academia and industry, addressing real-world system certification and reliability issues.

Notable achievements include 150+ publications, tool development for requirement slicing, security control analysis, and safety modeling. He actively mentors graduate students and chairs major conferences like ASE and RE. Current projects explore LLMs for requirement completeness and compliance automation, reflecting his commitment to advancing impactful software engineering practices.