Julio 2013

Walid Maalej is an assistant professor of informatics at the University of Hamburg and the head of the Mobile Services and Software Engineering group. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in 2012 and the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring medal for Germany’s top Researcher in Informatics (2010-2013). His current research interests include innovative mobile services, context-aware adaptive systems, and human factors in software engineering. He supervised more than 30 M.Sc and Ph.D. theses and published three books and more than 40 peer-reviewed papers on these topics.

Walid is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Systems and Software. He chaired the practice track of the IEEE RE’10 Conference, and successfully organized 12 international scientific events. Walid served as consultant and developer for numerous companies including Siemens, Tata Consultancy Services, Rohde und Schwarz, and Telekom. Previously, he was leading a research group on context and human aspects in software at the TU Munich, where he received his M.Sc. in 2006 and his Ph.D. in 2010 – both with distinction. Walid is the initiator and lead architect of the open source projects TeamWeaver and FastFix.