Ahmed Seffah
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Habitation (French HDR, Second Ph.D., required to be considered as a professor by the French Ministry of Education), “Human-Centered Software Design and Engineering: Patterns and Metrics” Ecole Centrale de Lyon and University of Claude Bernard, Lyon, France, 2006.
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Ph.D. in Software Engineering, “Proposals for Learnability in Integrated CASE tools” Ecole Centrale de Lyon and University of Claude Bernard, Lyon, France, 1993.
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Master of Applied Automatics and Informatics, “Development and Integration of Intelligent Help Tool in Computer-Assisted Design: The Case of Catia, Dassault Systems” Institut National des Sciences Appliqués and Ecole Centrale de Lyon, INSA/ECL France, 1989.
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Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering Specialisation Software, “Formal Analysis and Design of Safety-Critical Systems” USTHB (Algeria)/INSA (Lyon-France) 1987.
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Augmented human-data-physical things integration, interaction and intelligence
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Usability, privacy versus security conflicts, and design trade-offs
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Open innovation by user experience design thinking
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Sustainability and green design aspects in HCI
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Living lab as an incubator for the design of civic participation in sustainability challenges
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Gamification design for societal challenges
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Professor of software engineering, since 2021 (CTI-Zayed University )
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Professor of HCI and Software Engineering, 2010-2018 (UTT/France, LUT/Finland, HES-SO/University of Lausanne Switzerland)
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Professor of Human-Centric Software Engineering and HCI, 2000-2010 (Canada, Concordia University)
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Adjunct Professor, 1995-2000 (UQAM, Software Engineering Group, Canada)
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Team Leader/Director/Research, 1995-2000 (CRIM, Montreal, Canada)
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Distinguished Visiting Scholar, IBM Almaden, 2012
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Visiting Professor since 1998, in more than 10 universities (France, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Russia, Jordan, Vietnam, Japan, Australia)
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Senior Consultant and Research Scientist, since 1996, IBM, SAP, Michelin, Thales, Daimler Chrysler/Mercedes, Bell Canada, Orange, Bombardier, Ericsson, among others
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Current ongoing: Co-founder Zayed University Interactive Media Lab and Digital Humanities Research Network
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Co-Designed and Contributed to accreditation to 10 undergraduate and master programs in software engineering, CS, and HCI
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Developed and Taught more than 25 courses including HCI, green UX, usable security, research methods, and model/modeling in software engineering for master programs (Canada/Europe)
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Founded, chaired, and developed 3 major research labs/groups: CODER (Finland), Human-Centric Software Engineering Research Chair (Canada), Fab/Living Lab (Switzerland/France)
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Proposed, chaired, and/or contributed to more than 10M (Euro) granted projects from European Union Projects (Erasmus, Cost-Action, Horizon), Canada NSRG, CFI, France ANR, as well as companies.
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Regularly, keynote speakers at international conferences and research centers, recently on problem-based learning, interdisciplinary research, and education for sustainability challenges as well as gaming, student engagement, learning problem, and societal challenges
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UAE Representative for IFIP technical committees on HCI, software engineering, and ICT for societal challenges
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ISO Technical Committee on software engineering (Active Member and representative Canada/France from 1995-2018)
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Affiliated and played major roles with major associations in HCI and software engineering: ACM-SIGCHI, UX Professional Association, IEEE education and software engineering, IFIP Technical committees
Journals (Last Ten)
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Shola Oyedeji, Ahmed Seffah and Birgit Penzenstadler. A Catalogue Supporting Software Sustainability Design. Sustainability Journal, 2018, 10(7), 2296
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Ahmed Seffah, and all., Designing for Effective Interactions with Data in the Internet of Things. ACM SIGCHI Design (Design of Interactive Systems). Hong Kong, June 9-13, 2018.
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Ahmed Seffah and all., Integrating Sustainability in the Human-Centric Software Engineering lifecycle. 7Th IFIP Working Conference on Human-Centric Software Engineering, Nice, France, September 3-5, 2018
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Usable Sustainability and Green User Experience Design, ACM-EICS Conference, Paris June 19-20, 2018
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Palacin-Silva Maria Victoria, Seffah Ahmed, Porras Jari. Infusing sustainability into software engineering education: Lessons learned from capstone projects. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017.
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Karim Touloum, Djilali Idoughi, Ahmed Seffah: User Experience in Service Design: A Case Study from Algeria. IT Professional 19(1): 2017
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Ahmed Seffah: Patterns of HCI Design and HCI Design of Patterns - Bridging HCI Design and Model-Driven Software Engineering. HCI Series. Springer 2015
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Christina Braz, Ahmed Seffah and Billal Naqvi. Integrating a Usable Security Protocol into User Authentication Services Design Process. Francis Taylor/CRC Press. 2018.
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Leydi Caballero, Ana María Moreno, Ahmed Seffah: How Agile Developers Integrate User-Centered Design Into Their Processes: A Literature Review. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 26(8): 1175-1202 (2016)
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Jussi Laakkonen, Janne Parkkila, Pekka Jäppinen, Jouni Ikonen and Ahmed Seffah. Incorporating privacy into digital game platform design. The What? Why? How? Accepted to: IEEE Security and Privacy
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Graduate (2008-present)
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SWE 245 – Web Development
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IMT 375 - Human-Computer Interaction
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IMT 376 – Game Design, Programming, and Prototyping
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SEC 601 – Research Methods
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CIT 499 – Senior Project