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Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
10 King's College Rd.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4, Canada.

Phone: +1 (416) 946-5237
Fax: +1 (416) 978-4765

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I am a PhD candidate at The Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto working under the supervision of Professor Steve Easterbrook. I received my MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2003, and my BSc in Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Iran) in 2000.


Research Interests

My research concerns the study of techniques for constructing and manipulating requirements and design models in collaborative software development. I am also interested in algebraic specification and applications of category theory in software engineering.

Selected Publication

  • Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Shiva Nejati, Sotirios Liaskos, Steve Easterbrook, and Marsha Chechik, "Consistency Checking of Conceptual Models via Model Merging". 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'07), New Delhi, India, October 2007. [PDF]
  • Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Marsha Chechik, Steve Easterbrook, and Pamela Zave, "Matching and Merging of Statecharts Specifications". 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07), Minneapolis, USA, May 2007. (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award) [PDF]
  • Mehrdad Sabetzadeh and Steve Easterbrook, "View Merging in the Presence of Incompleteness and Inconsistency". Requirements Engineering Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, June 2006. (Invited Best Papers from RE'05) [PDF] [Publisher's Link]