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Abrahamsson Pekka

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Professor Dr Pekka Abrahamsson, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University Basic information Born: 1972. Nationality: Finnish Present position: Full professor in Information Systems and Software Engineering in the faculty of Information Technology, Univ. of Jyväskylä. Degrees: PhD in Software Engineering (University of Oulu, Finland), 2002. Academic titles: 2004, Qualified for tenure Professorship of information systems and software sengineering at University of Tampere, Finland; 2002, Ph.D., University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science, Oulu, Finland; 1998, M.Sc., University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science, Oulu, Finland Academic positions held after PhD: 2017-2022 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2015-2017 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU in Trondheim, Norway (full professor of software engineering), 2011-2015 Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Italy (dean, full professor of comp science), 2009-2011 University of Helsinki, Finland (full professor of software engineering), 2002-2009 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (researcher/senior researcher initially, 2005 onwards research professor in Software Technologies) Visiting positions: Visiting professor at University of Trento (ITA), University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Cagliari (ITA), SINTEF (NOR, adjunct chief scientist). Visiting researcher at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) Research funding, last 10 years (2010-2021): SCABO (2011-2012, Tekes, 650KEUR), Cloud Software (ICT SHOK, 2010-2013, academic coordinator, total volume 60MEUR), Cloud Software Factory Fidipro project (Tekes, 2011-2014, 1,9MEUR), EASI-Clouds (2011-2013, Finnish consortium set-up, total volume 25MEUR), Innovation Project (2015-2017), NTNU, 1.6MNOK), SOS-Agile (2016-2019, NFR, 3,3MNOK for NTNU), CIRCIT (2017-2019, Nordforsk 2MNOK for NTNU), a number of Business Finland projects (2019-2021, 1.5MEUR+) Awards and achievements: 18 keynote talks at International conferences, 200+ invited talks in universities, companies and professional events, Highly Cited Paper award 2019 at E-Informatica Software Engineering Open Access journal, Best Paper award 2018 at Journal of Systems and Software, best ARTEMIS research project proposal award 2018, best ARTEMIS project pitch awards 2017 & 2018, Top-100 Most Influential Scholar in Software Engineering in 2016 (aminer.org), chosen for best articles at Peerj 2015, most-read SAGE Open paper 2015, chosen for top-100 most influencing IT experts 2010 in Finland, Nokia Foundation Award 2007, 3 best conference paper awards (CEE-SET 2007, EASE 2014, Profes 2017), ITEA Achievement Award 2007, Best-master’s thesis 1998, Cor Baayen Award nominee, “Most promising researcher” in 2002. Community service: Participated in 110+ program committees of international conferences and workshops. Organization of 9 international conferences. Co-organizer of 23rd International conference product focused software process improvement (Profes 2022). Recently organized three conferences: 10th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2019), 22nd IEEE International conference on Technology Management (ICE 2016) and the 17th International conference product focused software process improvement (Profes 2016). 8 Program Chair roles, 10 General Chair positions. Supervised 14 PhD students to completion. Currently supervising 15 PhD students. 45 participations to PhD committees (Opponent, pre-examiner, other). Serving as an evaluator in several scientific funding bodies globally. International Research projects: Coordinated two large Eureka-ITEA cluster projects (AGILE, 2004-2006, 22MEUR and FLEXI 2007-2009, 40MEUR). Academic coordinator of Cloud Software Research (2011-2012) project of 56MEUR. Set-up and coordinated a number of national projects. Relevant networks: Founder & ex-Chairman of Software Startups Research Network (SSRN, www.softwarestarturps.org), Member of International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN), 200+ co-authors in 200+ research outputs (https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Abrahamsson:Pekka) Research innovations: 2017- Software Startup Lab @JYU. A physical facility for software startup research and education, Makerspace @NTNU and @FUB. A physical product development facility for staff and students 2015 Bobo -the world’s largest Raspberry Pi computing cluster. 2013- Entrepreneurship Evening @FUB. A startup event to promote the results of Lean Startup course, largest startup event in South Tyrol, Italy. 2010- Software Factory. Software Factory is a networked software development instrument. Software Factory supports educational, research and entrepreneurial perspectives.2007-2008 Idea Movement challenge. 50.000 ideas collected on what would they like to do with their mobile phones. ENERGI@VTT. A laboratory established to empirically study agile software development methods.

Keywords

empirical software engineering, AI-Assisted Software engineering, Ethics of artificial intelligence, Generative Artificial Intelligence

Affiliations

Tampere University
Professor of Software Engineering
2023 - present
Source: ORCID

Education (2)

PhD in Software Engineering
University of Oulu
MSc in Software Engineering
University of Oulu

Publications (103)

A Web-based modeling tool for the SEMAT Essence theory of software engineering
DOI
10.5334/jors.ad
2023
A System-based View of Blockchain Governance
DOI
10.1016/j.infsof.2023.107149
2022
Implementing AI Ethics in a Software Engineering Project-Based Learning Environment - The Case of WIMMA Lab
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-20706-8_19

Granted funding (1)

Research Council of Finland
2024 - 2026

Activities and awards (3)

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Highly Cited Paper Award
E-informatica Software Engineering Journal
2019
International collaboration: No
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Best project pitch - DevSecOps
Artemisia
2017
International collaboration: No
Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career
Nokia Foundation Award
2007
International collaboration: No