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Didar Zowghi

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Name:Didar Zowghi
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Dr Didar Zowghi is Senior Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO’s Data61, Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. She leads the “Diversity and Inclusion in AI” and “Requirements Engineering for Responsible AI” research teams at Data61. She also leads the National AI Centre’s Think Tank on AI Diversity and Inclusion. She has previously held many academic leadership positions at UTS: Deputy Dean of Graduate Research School , Director of university research centre for Human-Centred Technology Design, Director of Women in Engineering and Information Technology, Head of Department of Software Engineering, and Associate Dean Research. Before joining academia, she worked in software industry in the UK and Australia as a programmer, software engineer, analyst, consultant, and project manager.

Her academic research was focused on improving the software development processes and its products. In particular, her research addresses issues in the communication rich, multidisciplinary activities of software development, referred to as Requirements Engineering (RE). She is an expert in the “Evidenced Based” and “Human Centred Design” research paradigms. She has supervised many research students across three universities in Sydney and many others internationally. Much of her research has been funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other Australian government grants.

Professor Zowghi serves on the program committee of many national and international conferences including IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (since 1998). She was its General Chair in 2010, Program Chair in 2015 and Steering Committee Chair (2016-2018) and received Lifetime Service Award in 2019 by IEEE for her leadership in Requirements Engineering research community. She is the recipient of the 2022 IEEE Computer Society TCSE Distinguished Education Award for “outstanding and sustained contribution to the Software Engineering community”. She is Associate Editor of IEEE Software and Requirements Engineering Journal. She has published over 200 research articles in prestigious conferences and journals and has co-authored papers with 90+ different researchers from 30+ countries.

Country:Australia
Affiliation:CSIRO's Data61
Research interests:Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering

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