Oakes, Bentley

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Bentley Oakes

B.C.Sc. (U Manitoba), M.Sc, Ph.D (McGill), Postdoc (UAntwerp), Postdoc (UdeM)

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Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering

Phone: (514) 340-4711 Ext. 4101 Fax: (514) 340-5139 Room: M-4107

bentley.oakes@polymtl.ca

Areas of expertise
Software and development Software engineering Computer systems software Knowledge representation Industry 4.0 Artificial intelligence Virtual reality and related simulations Modelling and simulation studies

Primary sphere of excellence in research
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence

Secondary sphere(s) of excellence in research
Industry of the Future and Digital Society

Student research project(s)

I am recruiting

Research interests and affiliations

Research interests

Digital twins
Cyber-physical systems
Verification and validation
Knowledge representation
Ontologies
Model-driven engineering
Model transformations
Machine learning for engineering tasks
Software engineering
Virtual reality

Affiliation(s)

IVADO, Researcher
Software Engineering at Montréal, Coordinator
Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications research group, Member
Associate Academic Member, Associate member

Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)

2705 Software and development
2706 Software engineering
2720 Computer systems software
2803 Knowledge representation
2716 Virtual reality and related simulations

Publications

Recent publications

Zech, P., Barat, S., Nast, B., Oakes, B., Michael, J., Zschaler, S., Barn, B., & Breu, R. (2026). Model-based digital twin engineering: insights, challenges, and future directions. Software & Systems Modeling, 43 pages.

Dhaouadi, M., Oakes, B., & Famelis, M. (2025, June). Automated Extraction and Analysis of Developer's Rationale in Open Source Software [Abstract]. ACM on Software Engineering (FSE 2025), Trondheim, Norway.

Dhaouadi, M., Oakes, B., & Famelis, M. (2025). Automated Extraction and Analysis of Developer's Rationale in Open Source Software. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering., 2(FSE), 2548-2570.

Dhaouadi, M., Oakes, B., & Famelis, M. (2025, April). CoMRAT: Commit Message Rationale Analysis Tool [Abstract]. 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025), Ottawa, ON, Canada (1 page).

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Biography

Bentley Oakes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering (GIGL) at Polytechnique Montréal, where he leads the Oakes Lab. He researches and builds tools and methods that turn engineers' expertise into Digital Twins of complex cyber-physical systems. Recent recognized work includes contributions on ontological service-driven engineering of Digital Twins and systematic reporting frameworks for Digital Twins. Across 40+ peer-reviewed papers, his research appears in flagship venues in model-driven engineering (MODELS, SoSyM) and software engineering (TOSEM, FSE, ASE, MSR, ICPC).

He is an Associate Academic Member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute and a researcher in the artificial intelligence consortium IVADO. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal, working on domain-specific machine learning workflows, and at the University of Antwerp, where he worked with industrial partners on verification of cyber-physical systems and conceptual frameworks for Digital Twins. He received his Master's and PhD from McGill University, completing the PhD in 2019 on model transformation verification. He is the lead organizer of the Software Engineering at Montréal (SEMTL) seminar series. He regularly reviews for leading software engineering conferences and journals, and has received multiple best reviewer awards for this work.