Montassar Ben Messaoud
Speaker at AMLD Africa 2026
Montassar Ben Messaoud is a tenure-track assistant professor in the IT Department at Tunis Business School. He received his Ph.D. from ISG de Tunis and Ecole Polytechnique de Nantes, in 2012. His research explores the intersection of software engineering, quality assurance, and license compliance. In recognition of his research contributions, he was awarded the National Young Researchers’ Encouragement Grant by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in its 5th edition.
Montassar Ben Messaoud is a leading member of the AISE initiative, which focuses on scaling Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE) across the industry.
Dedicated to cultivating this ecosystem across Africa, he secured competitive funding from IEEE and ACM SIGSOFT to deliver high-impact educational programs, seminars and global conferences.
At AMLD Africa
WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa
AI4SE in Action: Insights from the TBS-VERMEG Partnership
This presentation showcases a real-world use case developed and deployed at Vermeg Tunisia. It illustrates how academic concepts were translated into an industrial solution. It also demonstrates the impact of close collaboration between industry and academia.
