Three years of peer-reviewed publishing, conference presentation and teaching on software ecosystems, looking at how automation and collaboration shape the way open-source communities work.

đź“„ Publications

Conference Papers

  • A Dataset of Contributor Activities in the NumFocus Open-Source Community

    Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens

    22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025), Ottawa, Canada, April 28-29, 2025. Pages 159–163.

    Presented as a talk and poster at the Rogers Centre, Ottawa.

    PDF · IEEE Xplore · Open access (ORBi)

  • Towards Understanding Open-Source Software Communities

    Youness Hourri

    23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024), Namur, Belgium, November 21-22, 2024. CEUR-WS Vol-3941, pages 190–201.

    Presented as a talk at the University of Namur.

    PDF · CEUR-WS

Preprints

  • Smell and Tell: The Emergence of Olfactory Expertise in Perfumery Students

    Anne-Lise Saive, Jane Plailly, Stéphanie Chambaron, Youness Hourri, Carla Monin, Zeineb Nhouchi, Justine Belay, Pauline Chalut, Farnaz Hanaei, Nadine Vallet

    Preprint, February 2025

    PDF · DOI

🥇 Awards

Data/Tool Track Distinguished Dataset Award

MSR 2025, shared with Alexandre Decan and Tom Mens for the NumFocus contributor activities paper listed above.

🎓 Education

Master’s Degree in Machine Learning & Data Science

📍 Université Sorbonne Paris Nord - Paris, France (2021 – 2023)

  • Focus on statistics, data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, deep learning and business intelligence.

Master’s Degree in Web Intelligence & Data Science

📍 Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah - Fez, Morocco (2021 – 2023)

  • Data exchange and interoperability, operations research, optimisation, modelling & simulation, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, text mining, web mining and visual analytics.

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics & Computer Science

📍 Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah - Fez, Morocco (2018 – 2021)

  • Linear algebra, calculus, probability & statistics, programming, algorithms, databases, operating systems and computer networks.

🎤 Talks & Events

Presentations without an accompanying paper. Talks tied to a publication are listed above.

Tool presentation, 24th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop

đź“Ť University of Twente - Enschede, Netherlands Nov 2025

  • ghmap, with Alexandre Decan and Tom Mens

Talk at InforTech Day'24

đź“Ť University of Mons - Mons, Belgium May 2024

  • About the impact of bots in collaborative software development communities

Participant, 4th International Software Engineering Summer School

đź“Ť University of Bari Aldo Moro - Bari, Italy Sep 2024

  • Tutorials, talks and networking sessions on recent trends in software engineering

🏫 Teaching

Master’s Thesis Jury Member (2024, 2025 & 2026)

  • Served as rapporteur and jury member for master’s thesis defences.

Master’s Course: Software Evolution (2024, 2025 & 2026)

  • Guided student teams on collaborative software development in GitHub.
  • Delivered practical coursework on development bots and Lehman’s laws of software evolution.
  • Assisted in project evaluation and grading.

Bachelor’s Course: Compilation (2024, 2025 & 2026)

  • Supported students in Python programming for regular expressions and automata theory.
  • Provided individual assistance during lab sessions to reinforce concepts.

1-Month Research Internship (Aug - Sep 2024)

  • Supervised a mathematics bachelor’s student exploring graph analysis techniques for socio-technical networks in open-source communities.