Academia

I am actively engaged in research, academic publishing, conference participation, and teaching. My work focuses on data science, software development, and open-source software (OSS) research, with an emphasis on collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge dissemination.

📄 Publications

Journal Articles

• 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
  Chemical Senses (to appear, February 2025)

Conference Papers

• A Dataset of Contributor Activities in the NumFocus Open-Source Community
  Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
  Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025), Ottawa, Canada, April 28-29, 2025

• Towards Understanding Open-Source Software Communities
  Youness Hourri
  Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024), Namur, Belgium, November 21-22, 2024

A complete list of publications is available on ORCID.

🎤 Conferences & Talks

Presentations & Events Attended

• Presentation at BENEVOL 2024 Workshop (Namur, Belgium, November 21, 2024)
  • Topic: Towards Understanding Open-Source Software Communities
• Presentation at InforTech Day (University of Mons, May 29, 2024)
  • Topic: Development Bots in Open-Source Software
• Joint Session on Software Engineering & AI (LIP6, Paris)
  • Attended session featuring Meta AI’s Baptiste Rozière on Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2023)
  • Discussed Software Evolution Research Trends
• DevFest Mons – Attended sessions on AI, Android, Cloud, Firebase, and Machine Learning

🎓 Summer Schools

• SIESTA 2024 Summer School (Bari, Italy, September 4-6, 2024)
  • Participated in tutorials, student talks, and networking sessions on recent trends in software engineering.

🏫 Teaching & Supervision

Teaching Activities

• Master’s Course: Software Evolution (University of Mons, 2025)

  • Supervised student teams on collaborative software development in GitHub.
  • Guided students in managing repositories, team collaboration, and best practices in version control.
  • Assisted in project evaluation alongside course instructors.

• Bachelor’s Course: Compilation (University of Mons, 2025)

  • Provided hands-on assistance in Python-based regular expression exercises.
  • Helped students understand regex concepts and their practical applications in compilation.
  • Supported programming tasks and debugging during lab sessions.

• Master’s Course: Software Evolution (University of Mons, 2024)

  • Delivered practical coursework on OSS bots and Lehman’s laws of software evolution.
  • Mentored students and assisted in project evaluation and grading.

• Bachelor’s Course: Compilation (University of Mons, 2024)

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

Supervision & Evaluation

• 1-Month Research Internship (August 9, 2024)
  • Topic: Graph Visualization Tools for Analyzing Socio-Technical Networks in OSS.
  • Assisted a mathematical science bachelor’s student in exploring graph analysis techniques.
• Master’s Thesis Jury Member (June 27-29, 2024)
  • Served as rapporteur for master’s thesis evaluations.