Research

An overarching research question of my work is: “How to engineer complex modern systems by leveraging systematic / rigorous methods to satisfy functional (and non-functional) properties?”
With complex modern system is meant systems that are, e.g., software / hardware intensive, heterogeneous, dynamic, evolving, intelligent, and involving humans.
My interests include investigations about architectures, (automated) approaches, and support methods for such complex modern IoT systems.
Some of my contributions include model-driven engineering as facilitator for the IoT, and software architectures for IoT systems and self-adaptive IoT systems. I investigated what we call Emergent Configurations (ECs) in the IoT in collaboration with a companies (ECOS project). Other contributions of mine are: an interoperability theory and approach facing both functional and non-functional concerns, self-adaptive systems to realize it, as well as contributions from an architectural perspective and patterns of mismatches. More recent contributions are about an interoperability model and evaluation framework for interoperability concerns in large evolving systems in collaboration with large companies (Interoperabiity project).

Until March 2022, I led the ECOS research project within which we also carried out this research. Until Summer 2018, I led the Interoperability research project. Both projects were in collaboration with companies, the first within the Internet of Things and People (IoTaP) Research Center and the other within the Software Center.



Some of my services to the scientific community, awards, and appointments include (sensitive details are omitted here):

  • Served a European National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes as external referee/ evaluator for research assessment in 2021.

  • Served an Excellence Initiative at a European University as project reviewer, 2018

  • Served a Research Foundation of an EU country as project reviewer, 2018

  • Served a University of an EU country, I never worked at/collaborated with, as project reviewer, 2018

  • Served for 3 years a Funding Programme in Europe in 2016, 2015, 2014 as:
    • - Expert evaluator (i.e., project reviewer)
    • - Panel member (in physical meetings)
    • - Panel chair
    • - Chairperson of the overall evaluation committee (all 15 panels’ chairs)

  • Guest Editor of Special Issue of Internet of Things at Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PCMJ), Elsevier, 2020

  • Editorial board of IET Software since 2017

  • Steering Committee Member of ICSA, International Conference on Software Architecture, since 2023

  • Steering Committee Member of IoT, International conference on the Internet of Things, since 2020

  • PC Co-Chair of ICSA 2024, 20th International Conference on Software Architecture, Hyderabad, India

  • PC Co-Chair of the 10th International conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2020)

  • Co-chair of Workshops and Tutorials at ECSA 2023

  • Co-chair of Tools and Demonstrations at ECSA 2021

  • Co-chair of New and Emerging Ideas (NEMI) Track at ICSA 2021

  • Co-chair of MOBILESoft 2019 Tool Demos & Mobile Apps track (co-located with ICSE 2019)

  • Co-chair of Early Career Researchers Forum at ICSA 2018

  • Publicity Co-chair at ECSA 2022

  • Publicity Chair at SEAMS 2021

  • Publicity Chair at SEAMS 2015

  • Publicity and Social Media Co-Chair at MobileSoft 2018 (co-located with ICSE 2018)

  • Main organizer of IoT-ASAP 2020 (International Workshop on Engineering IoT Systems) at ECSA 2020

  • Main organizer of IoT-ASAP 2018 at ICSA 2017

  • Main organizer of IoT-ASAP 2018 at ICSA 2018

  • Main organizer of IoT-ASAP 2019 at ICSA 2019

  • Publicity chair at SEAMS 2015

  • Program Committee (PC) member of a number of leading international conferences, including, e.g.:
    • - ICSA 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 (WICSA and CompArch)
    • - ECSA 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
    • - ECSA Workshop Proposal 2020 2019
    • - IoT 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
    • - SEAMS 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
    • - SEAMS Artifact 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
    • - ACSOS 2023, 2022, 2021
    • - SEAA Embedded Systems & Internet of Things Track 2019, 2018
    • - ICSE 2018 Posters Track
    • - ICSE 2018 Demonstration Track
    • - 42th SOFSEM in 2016
    • - SAC track SA-TTA in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

  • PC member of a number of international workshops, e.g.:
    • - MeSS 2023, 2022, 2021
    • - MDE4IoT 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 @ MODELS
    • - eCAS 2019, 2018 @ SASO
    • - ICAS, FAS* 2019
    • - SSIoT @ IEEE EuroS&P 2019
    • - ES-IoT @ SEAA 2019
    • - CASA @ ECSA 2018, CASA @ ECSA 2017
    • - AKSAS 2018 @ ECSA 2018
    • - FAACS 2018 @ ECSA 2018, FAACS 2017 @ SEFM 2017
    • - enWoT 2017 @ ICWE 2017
    • - womENcourage 2017, 2016, 2015

  • Reviewer for leading international journals, e.g.:
    • - TSE
    • - TSC
    • - SoSym
    • - TAAS
    • - IST
    • - JSS
    • - IEEE Software
    • - Journal on Internet of Things (IoT)
    • - Future Internet
    • - Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal
    • - JISA
    • - Computing
    • - IET Software

  • "Exceptional Reviewer Award" of ICSA 2019

  • "Exceptional Reviewer Award" of ICSA 2018

  • "Best Reviewer Award" of WICSA and CompArch 2016 (“for the quality of her reviews")

  • Invited / invited talks at at MDE4IoT 2018@MODELS, Shonan Meeting (Japan) in 2016 and 2017, STEW, BOTI (Sweden), Dagstuhl Seminar (Germany), Malmö stad library

  • Leader/main contributor for the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malmö University for the self-evaluation of research “ERA19” about the 5 years period 2013 – 2018 (work included involvement of all organization, writing a report and being evaluated by an international committee)

  • Member of the group “Supervisors and responsible for operations” in the evaluation of the third-cycle education at MAU conducted by UKÄ, the Swedish Higher Education Authority

  • Management group member (1 of 5) of the IoTaP Research Profile

  • Member (1 of 10) of the Reference Group "Research Communication through the Web", MAU (2018 - 2019)

  • Member (1 of 6) of the Nomination Committee at MAU for a new University Board (representing my faculty at University level), December 2022 – April 2023

  • Member (1 of 4) of the Nomination Committee at my faculty TS for various committees, positions, and boards - April 2022 – March 2025

  • Member of the Reaserch and PhD Education Board at the TS Faculty, January 2023 – December 2025

  • Member (1 of 15) of a group of representatives of the Faculty of Technology and Society in the evaluation process of the Engineering education program, 5 years (Civilingenjörsansökan) proposed to and evaluated by UKÄ, the Swedish Higher Education Authority –a two years’ specialization is in IoT

  • Member of the board of supervisors of the Faculty of Technology and Society, Malmö University (since 2016)

  • Member of the recruitment committee for selecting 4 postdocs and 2 PhD Student in Computer Science at MAH (2016-2017)

  • External expert for the selection of 3 post-docs in Computer Science at Malmö University (2016-2017)

  • Member of the group “Supervisors and responsible for operations” in the evaluation of the third-cycle education at Malmö University conducted by UKÄ, the Swedish Higher Education Authority (2017)

  • Two times member of the recruitment committee (beredningskommittén) for the Head of Department at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at MAU (2022 and 2017)

  • Examiner of three PhD Students in Computer Science, Malmö University (since 2017)

  • Member of the recruitment committee for selecting 1 postdoc in IoT at MAU (2022)

  • Member of the recruitment committee for selecting 1 PhD Student in Computer Science at MAU (2020-2021) --in IoT

  • Member of the recruitment committee for selecting 4 postdocs & 2 PhD Student in Computer Science at MAU (2016-17)

  • External expert for the selection of 3 post-docs in Computer Science at MAU (2016-2017)

  • Chair of PhD committee, PhD defense of Usman Iftikhar at Linnaeus University, Sweden (December 2017) --in IoT

  • 6 times PhD committee member at PhD defenses in other international universities since 2017

  • Research Collaborator, Univ. of L’Aquila, Italy, 2013/04-06