Professor

 
Abu Dhabi Campus
+971 2 599 3314
 
 

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.

 

Bsc. Msc. PhD in Software Engineering

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

 

  • 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

  • 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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