Arif Ali Khan works as an Assistant Professor in the M3S Unit of Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems, and Services at the University of Oulu, Finland. Previously, he served as a faculty member in the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and College of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He obtained his PhD in software engineering from the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. Khan has participated in and managed numerous empirical software engineering-related research projects. His areas of expertise include quantum software engineering, software process improvement, multi-criteria decision analysis, DevOps, microservices architecture, AI ethics, agile software development, requirements change management, soft computing, and evidence-based software engineering. He actively conducts publication-based research workshops, serves as a guest editor for major software engineering journals, and edits software engineering research books. He has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed software engineering conferences and journals.