Recognitions and Awards

[2014]	Recognized among the Top 30 authors in software engineering literature by João M. Fernandes in “Authorship Trends in Software Engineering,” Springer Scientometrics, May 2014, Volume 101, Issue 1, pp 257-271.
[2014]	Spotlight in IEEE Computer about our IEEE TSE paper on “Determining the Cause of a Design Model Inconsistency”. The IEEE Computer is the premiere magazine for all banches of technical sciences and engineering and this magazine will report on our paper.
[2014]	Best Paper Award for “Inconsistency Resolution in Merging Versions of Architectural Models” received at the 11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), Sydney, Australia.
[2013]	Recognized as Distinguished Referee by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).
[2012]	Paper on “Constraint-Driven Modeling through Transformation” was selected as one of the Top Papers of the 5th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Model Transformation (ICMT) to the Tool Conference Series, Prague, Czech Republic.
[2012]	Paper on “Assessing the Effect of Requirements Traceability for Software Maintenance” was selected as one of the top papers of the 28th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Italy for a special journal issue.
[2012]	Paper on “Computing Repair Trees for Resolving Inconsistencies in Design Modelswas selected as one of the top papers of the 27th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Germany for a special journal issue.
[2011]	Paper by Raúl Mazo, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Camille Salinesi, Daniel Diaz, Alexander Egyed on "Constraint Programming Approach for Checking Conformance in Feature Models" received the Best Paper Award at the 35th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Munich, Germany.
[2010]	IBM Research Faculty Fellow awarded by IBM Rational Canada in recognition to the research on consistency management which is relevant and critical to their research priorities.
[2007]	Recognized as the 10th Best Scholar in Software Engineering by Ren, J. and Taylor, R. N. in "Automatic and Versatile Publications Ranking For Research Institutions And Scholars," Communications of the ACM, June 2007, Vol. 50, No. 6,/a>.
[2007]	Recognition of Service Award from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) for Chairing the Program Committee of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Atlanta, GA, USA
[2002]	Bold Stroke Avionics Software Family (led by Boeing Comp.) was inducted in the SPLC 2002 Hall of Fame for Successful Product Lines. While at Teknowledge, I worked on its model-based integration (MoBIES I and II grants).
[2001]	Paper on "A Scenario-Driven Approach to Traceability" was selected as one of the ‘best of’ papers of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and was subsequently published in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
[2001]	Paper on "Software Model Connectors: Bridging Models across the Software Lifecycle" was selected as one of the ‘best of’ papers of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) to be published in the Journal of Systems and Software.
[1999]	Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
[1998]	INCOSE Student Paper Award received during the 8th International Conference of Systems Engineering, Vancouver, Canada.