Awards  & Activities

Professional Awards and Distinctions  

• 2023: Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

• 2022: Honourable Mention finalist of the International LearnSci Teaching Innovation Awards 

• 2020: Recognised at the national level with Citations at the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT’19): Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning  

Both LearnSci and AAUT awards were received for the achievements within Chirality-2 project that was conducted in a multidisciplinary team with Prof Michelle Spencer and Prof Oliver Jones.

• 2018: Merit iAward  in Community Service Markets category, Victoria: Chirality-2 project in a multidisciplinary team with A/Prof M. Spencer and A/Prof O. Jones (Chemistry)

• 2016: Best Paper Award  at 11th International Conf. on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 

• 2015: iAward  in UG section, Victoria: EndOfTrip student project, where I was the first supervisor.

• 2010: TU Munich (Germany):  President’s Excellence Research and Teaching Award  

• 2008: TU Munich (Germany):  President’s Excellence Research Award 

• 2007: TU Munich (Germany):  President’s Excellence Research Award 

Engagenment

Conference PC Chair / Organiser:

• Member of Organising Committee, WebChair: 20th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous'23, B-ranked conf.)

• Co-Chair of  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS'23, A-ranked conf.) Poster Track   

• Co-Chair of  IEEE International Requirements Engineering (RE'22, A-ranked conf) Student Volunteering chair 

• Session chair at Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE’21, A ranked conf.)

• Special Session Chair/Organiser: Collaboration in Software and System Engineering (CSSE) at KES'20, and KES'19 (B-ranked conf.)

• Special Session Chair/Organiser: Bioengineering Applications at KES'19 (B-ranked conf.)

• PC Chair/Organiser: Sustainable Architecture: Global collaboration, Requirements, Analysis (SAGRA) workshop at ECSA'17, ECSA'16, and ECSA'15 (A-ranked conf.)

• PC Chair/Organiser: Human-Oriented Formal Methods (HOFM) workshop at STAF/SEFM'16, SEFM'15, and SEFM'14 (B-ranked conf.)

• Special Session Chair/Organiser: Collaborative Aspects of Formal Methods (COLAFORM) at ENASE'16 (B-ranked conf.)

• Chair/Organiser: Automated Systems Software Engineering & Testing Workshop at RMIT, AICAUSE, 2013

Journal reviewer:  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [Q1], International Journal of Intelligent Systems [Q1], Information and Software Technology [Q1], Information and Software Technology [Q1), Journal of Systems & Software [Q1], IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology [Q1], IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics [Q1], ACM Transactions on Computing Education [Q1],  Automated Software Engineering [Q2], Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems [Q2], Journal of Software: Evolution and Process [Q2], Acta Informatica [Q2], IEEE Software [Q2], IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering [Q2],  Information and Software Technology [Q2], Computer Languages, Systems & Structures [Q2], Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [Q2], IET Intelligent Transport Systems [Q2], Journal of Software and Systems Modeling [Q2],  Science of Computer Programming [Q2],   Journal on Software Evolution and Processes [Q2]

PC Member:  Since 2013, I have served as a Program Committee (PC) Member at 30+ international refereed conferences and workshops, e.g., at ICSE (A* ranked), RE (A ranked), MODELS (A ranked), ICSA (A ranked), ICECCS (A ranked), ENASE (B ranked), KES (B ranked) SAC (B ranked). In a number of PCs I am working over many years: 

• 2024: ICSE(A*), RE (A), MODELS (A), ICSA(A), KES (B), ENASE (B), REFSQ (B), GREENS, REWBAH, QuASoQ 

• 2023: ICSE (A*), RE (A), MODELS (A), ICSA(A), Mobiquitous (B), KES (B), ENASE (B), REFSQ (B), REWBAH, QuASoQ, ModeVVa 

• 2022: MODELS (A), ICSA(A), RE (A),  KES (B), ENASE (B), SAC (B),  REWBAH, QuASoQ, ModeVVa 

• 2021: MODELS (A), KES (B), ENASE (B), SAC (B), QuASoQ, ModeVVa

• 2020: MODELS (A), KES (B), ENASE (B), SAC (B), EDSMLS, KES-HCIS, ICT4S, QuASoQ, ModeVVa 

• 2019: KES, ENASE, ECSA, MODELS, SAC, IIMSS, SOFTENG, ICMSS, MoDeVVa, QuASoQ, VALID, FIE, RE4SuSy, FASSI, ICSA, ICSEA, EDSMLS, SE4Science19

• 2018: ICECCS, KES, ENASE, MODELS, SAC, ModeVVA,  IIMSS, ICSEA, FASSI, SOFTENG, S4CIP, VALID, FIE, ENWOT, QuASoQ, SAGRA, LASD, CTA, EDSMLS

• 2017: ENASE, KES, MODELS, SOFTENG, ModeVVA, IIMSS, ICSEA, C4CIP, WSSSPE, MDI4SE, IEEE QRS CTA, SAC, QuASoQ, LASD, SAGRA, MDI4SE 

• 2016: ENASE, MDI4SE, SAC SA-TTA, RE4SuSy, SAGRA, ModeVVA, IIMSS, HOFM, COLAFORM, QuASoQ, WSSSPE

• 2015: ASWEC, ModeVVA,  RE4SuSy, HOFM, SSSE, cpsATcloud, SAGRA

• 2014: APSCC, HOFM, RTTSBS

I contributed as a reviewer to the above conferences and workshops as well as to a number of other international conferences and workshops: ISD’18, CompArch/WICSA’16, WICSA’15, MEMOCODE’15, ASWEC’14, QoSA’14, WCOP’14, MODELSWARD’13, HSCC’13, ICSOFT’12, MODELS’12, SPLC’12, MiSE’12, ICSOFT’11, SC’11, SEAFOOD’10, ACSD’10, EMS’10, VaMoS’10, ICSE SEIP’10, SOFSEM’10, SPLC'09, ACSD'09, CONQUEST'09, MISE’07, ACSD’06, FACS’05, FMOODS’05, FDL’05, AMAST’0.

Book chapter reviewer:  

• E. Ocalir-Akunal (Ed.). (2015). Using Decision Support Systems for Transportation Planning Efficiency. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA 

• K. Blashki, P. Isaias (Eds.). (2013). Emerging Research and Trends in Interactivity and the Human-Computer Interface. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA