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Dr. Ahmed Seffah

Professor

Bsc. Msc. PhD in Software Engineering

HDR (habilitation) in HCI and Human-Centric Software Engineering

Bio

Ahmed Seffah is a professor of software engineering. His research interests and ongoing projects include Human-Centric Software Engineering, Human-AI Interaction, Social-Cyber-Physical Systems Modeling, and their applications in and for Sustainability (Supporting UN SDG). Prof. Seffah is a pioneering researcher in Human-Centered Software Engineering, a term he coined in 2001.  He has established 3 research labs in three countries and published 8 books and more than 200 papers in top HCI, design science, and software engineering journals, conferences, and magazines. He has been a full-tenured professor in Canada and Europe for 25 years while contributing to the design and accreditation of more than 15 programs, including 2 Ph.D. programs and 3 Interdisciplinary masters at the crossroads of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering.  Prof. Seffah has supervised 15 PhDs; many are academic professors in the USA, Europe, and Canada, and IT leaders at IBM, Bombardier, SAP, and Oracle, among others.  A common ground for his 30-year research journey is the search for a theory of software systems design. Professor Seffah has initiated and contributed to significant projects, including EU-Horizon, EU Erasmus, Canada NSERC, and CFI. Outside academia, Prof. Seffah was a humanitarian volunteer helping many education institutions design educational curriculums to solve sustainability challenges using design thinking and transition design approaches.

 
Office

Abu Dhabi Campus

Phone:

+971 2 599 3314

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Teaching Areas

  • Software Engineering and Programming
  • Research Methods and Ethics
  • User Experience Design
  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Human-Data Interaction and Visualisation
  • Computing graphics programming
  • Green software and IT

Research and Professional Activities

Research and Professional Activities

  • Human-centric Software Engineering, mainly user experience, measures, and design patterns
  • Human-centric Security and Privacy
  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Human-Data Interaction and Visualization
  • Social-Cyber-Physical Systems Design
  • Sustainability, mainly Sustainability Design and Innovation in Living Lab

Research and Professional Affiliation

  • UAE Representative, IFIP Technical Committees on HCI and ICT for Society, Sustainability, and HCI education (Secretary)
  • ISO TC 7 Technical Committee, Software Engineering
  • IEEE Senior Member
  • ACM-SIG-CHI
  • UX Professional Association
  • Arab CH

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