Majid Babaei: News & Notes https://majidbabaei.com/news/ Research progress, publications, teaching, and students from Majid Babaei's group. en Research manuscripts under anonymous reviewhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/anonymous-review-update/https://majidbabaei.com/news/anonymous-review-update/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTManuscriptsIdentifying details for two manuscripts are withheld while anonymous review is ongoing. Closing the loop between humans and agentic AIhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/closing-the-loop/https://majidbabaei.com/news/closing-the-loop/Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTResearch agendaAgentic AIMy research agenda in one picture. Two states, Human and AI, and two transitions driven by abstraction. Building that loop efficiently and effectively is what is missing. Agent Slicing: finding the blind spots of multi-agent AI teamshttps://majidbabaei.com/news/agent-slicing/https://majidbabaei.com/news/agent-slicing/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTAgentic AIManuscriptsIndividual-agent checks miss many defects that only appear when agents are composed. Agent slicing detects them and points to the interactions that explain them. Two submissions on checkable agent teamshttps://majidbabaei.com/news/guardrails-and-coordination/https://majidbabaei.com/news/guardrails-and-coordination/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMTAgentic AIManuscriptsContracts for LLM guardrail hierarchies, and a deterministic controller for untrusted agent proposals. Two ways of carrying human concerns into agentic systems. RapidPay accepted to Empirical Software Engineeringhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/rapidpay-emse/https://majidbabaei.com/news/rapidpay-emse/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPublicationsSoftware evidenceAccepted to Empirical Software Engineering and to appear, RapidPay connects self-admitted technical debt into dependency chains and uses ripple scoring and commit context to prioritize repayment. Teaching in Fall 2026https://majidbabaei.com/news/fall-2026-teaching/https://majidbabaei.com/news/fall-2026-teaching/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTTeachingCOMP 370, COMP 481, COMP 155, and CIS 285. My busiest UFV term so far, with 129 students across five sections. Completing my term as Chair of Industry Partnerships at UFVhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/industry-partnerships-term-completed/https://majidbabaei.com/news/industry-partnerships-term-completed/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTServicePartnershipsMy term as Chair of Industry Partnerships in UFV's School of Computing ended in September 2026. I continue as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Two papers at ICSE 2026, TAAF and SIKGhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/icse-2026-taaf-sikg/https://majidbabaei.com/news/icse-2026-taaf-sikg/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMTPublicationsSoftware evidenceA research paper on trace analysis with knowledge graphs and LLMs, and a poster on semantic impact analysis for adaptive test selection. Tech Panel 2026 at UFVhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/tech-panel-2026/https://majidbabaei.com/news/tech-panel-2026/Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMTPartnershipsStudentsOrganized with the Computing Student Association, Tech Panel 2026 brought practitioners from Zynim, PixelPaddle, Kwixand, and ADAMnetworks to campus. Serving the software engineering community in 2026https://majidbabaei.com/news/service-2026/https://majidbabaei.com/news/service-2026/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMTServiceThis year's organizing and reviewing roles across CASCON, ASE, and FSE. Congratulations, Ghazal and Alireza!https://majidbabaei.com/news/msc-graduations/https://majidbabaei.com/news/msc-graduations/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMTStudentsGhazal Khodabandeh and Alireza Ezaz complete their master's degrees at Brock University and move on to York University and Cohere. Joining the University of the Fraser Valleyhttps://majidbabaei.com/news/joining-ufv/https://majidbabaei.com/news/joining-ufv/Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTMilestonesAfter McGill, Concordia, and Queen's, I am joining UFV's School of Computing as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.