His main area of research is Software Engineering, with an emphasis on Requirements Engineering and static code analysis. Dr. Mahmoud is currently directing SEEL, the Software Engineering and Evolution Lab at LSU. His work at SEEL has resulted numerous publications in several prestigious Software Engineering venues, including the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). Dr. Mahmoud’s work was nominated for the best paper award in IEEE RE’13, 14, and 15. His TOSEM paper was selected by ACM SIGSOFT as a Journal First paper to be presented at the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’17).