Maged Elaasar
President at University of California, Los Angeles
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaged Elaasar is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with three decades of experience building model-driven and semantic-web based engineering tools. He leads Modelware and heads JPL’s Integrated Model Centric Engineering program, translating MBSE research into operational software for space projects. A prolific contributor to open source and open standards (Eclipse, OMG) and a multiple US patent holder, he blends academic rigor—PhD from Carleton—with hands-on product delivery. He also teaches software engineering at UCLA and Northeastern, mentoring the next generation while staying active in applied research. Notably, his work bridges ontology-driven tool design and practical lifecycle integration, enabling traceability and automated change impact analysis across complex systems. Based in Irvine, CA, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical stewardship of modeling technologies.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Systems and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton UniversityB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at The American University in Cairo
English, Arabic, French, German
Github Skills (64)
jetbrains10
dev-environment10
ontologies10
eclipse-ide10
ide10
agent-based-modeling10
language-server-protocol10
remote-development10
gitpod10
disposable10
vscode10
theia10
eclipse10
modeling10
editor9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
opencaesar/oml-eclipse
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
An Eclipse extension to support OML through LSP
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 11 months
javalspeclipse
opencaesar/oml-sprotty
Jan 2019 - Sep 2021
A diagram view for OML models implemented using Sprotty
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 7 months
sprottydiagram
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