Sona Ghahremani, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

System Analysis and Modeling Group

Hasso Plattner Institut for Digital Engineering
University of Potsdam
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
14482 Potsdam

Telefon: +49 (0)331 5509 157
E-Mail: sona.ghahremani(at)hpi.de
Raum: A-2.9

Research Interests

Neuro-symbolic and Generative AI
Autonomic Control and Self-adaptive Systems
Machine Learning
Molde-driven Engineering

Awards and Achievements

PhD thesis titled Incremental Self-Adaptation of Dynamic Architectures Attaining Optimality and Scalability completed with summa cum laude - 2023.
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) featured the article titled Improving Scalability and Reward of Utility-Driven Self-Healing for Large Dynamic as one of the five TAAS papers of interest - 2021.
Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2017) for the paper "Efficient Utility-Driven Self-Healing Employing Adaptation Rules for Large Dynamic Architectures"- 2017.

Scientific Activities

Program Committee ICSA 2025
Organizing Committee ACSOS 2025 (Tutorial Chair)
Organizer of 1st Workshop on Neuro-Symbolic Software Engineering NSE 2025 at ICSE 2025
Organizing Committee SEAMS 2025 (Artifact Evaluation Chair)
Organizing Committee ACSOS 2024 (Doctoral Symposium Chair)
Session Chair of: Emergence and Self Organization session at ACSOS 2024
Invited Panelist SEAMS 2024 (Community Debate Track)
Track Committee QUATIC 2024 (Quality in Adaptive Software Track)
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (2023-2024) TAAS
Program Committee SEAMS 2024
Organizing Committee SEAMS 2024 (Publicity Co-Chair)
Reviewer for Minitrack on Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications at 57th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
Program Committee ACSOS 2023 (Posters and Demos)
Session Chair of: Digital twins and non-functional properties at SEAMS 2023
Program Committee SEAMS 2023
Program Committee SEAMS 2023 (Artifact)
Program Committee ACSOS 2022 (Posters and Demos)
Program Committee Workshop on Adaptive, Learning Pervasive Computing Applications ALPACA 2022
Reviewer for Elsevier Journal Information and Software Technology (2021-2022) IST
Session Chair of: Self-Adaptation and Machine Learning at SEAMS 2021
Program Committee Workshop on Self-aware Computing SeAC 2021
Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (2020-2021) TAAS
Organizing Committee ACSOS 2021 (Posters and Demos Chair)
Program Committee SEAMS 2021
Program Committee SEAMS 2021 (Artifact)
Organizing Committee SEAMS 2021 (Proceedings Chair)
Reviewer for Future Generation Computer Systems (2020-2021) FGSC
Program Committee Workshop on Self-aware Computing SeAC 2020
Session Chair of: Testing, Analysis, Reasoning, and Monitoring at SEAMS 2020
Program Committee ACSOS (Poster and Demo) 2020
Program Committee SEAMS 2020 (Artifact)
Program Committee ICAC (Poster and Demo) 2019
Subreviewer SEAMS 2016, 2017, 2018
Subreviewer ICAC 2016, 2017,2018
Subreviewer SASO 2015, 2016, 2017
Invited to attend the GI-Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Engineering for Intelligent and Autonomous Systems at Schloss Dagstuhl , 2018. (see report here)

Teaching Activities

WiSe 2023/2024 : Runtime Assurance for Autonomous Vehicles
SoSe 2023 : Safe Reinforcement Learning for Self-Adaptive Systems
WiSe 2022/2023 : Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Self-Adaptive Systems
SoSe 2022 : Neuro-symbolic machine learning systems
SoSe 2021: Machine Learning-Based Control of Dynamical Systems
SoSe 2021: Seminar Highly Scalable Systems
WiSe 2020/2021: Graph Neural Networks
WiSe 2020/2021: Seminar Multi-Agent Systems
SoSe 2020 : Online Learning for Self-Healing and Self-Optimization
WiSe 2019/2020 : Advanced Topics in Self-Adaptive Systems: Online Machine Learning
SoSe 2019: Seminar Self-Adaptation in Micro-Service Architectures with Kubernetes
SoSe 2018: Supervising master thesis Constraint-based Self-optimization of Deployments for modular Systems.
WiSe 2017/2018 : Software Engineering for Self-adaptive Systems
WiSe 2016/2017 : Software Engineering for Self-adaptive Systems
SoSe 2016: Seminar Trends in Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Software.

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