Bentley Oakes
Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolBentley Oakes is an Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montréal with 12 years of research and engineering experience bridging intelligent systems, formal methods, and applied machine learning. His lab focuses on model-driven knowledge engineering and practical approaches that help non-ML experts build tailored machine learning workflows—work recently published in TOSEM. He previously held postdoctoral roles at Université de Montréal and UAntwerpen where he worked on verification of cyber-physical systems, co-simulation, digital twins, and mentoring students while writing EU project proposals. Bentley’s industry background ranges from game AI prototyping at Electronic Arts to cryptographic implementations at BlackBerry and code modernization work with General Motors, giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and hands-on systems engineering. Based in Montreal, he holds a PhD and MSc from McGill and is known for translating formal semantics and multi-paradigm modelling research into actionable tools for engineers.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of ManitobaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (44)
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zeplin10
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spin9
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application-management9
ecore9
wxwidgets9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AToMPM/atompm
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
A Tool for Multi-Paradigm Modeling
Contributions:16 releases, 384 commits, 131 PRs in 4 years 10 months
multi-paradigmpythonmachine-learningparadigmzeplin
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