Vahid Garousi

Professor, Software Engineer, Consultant, Author

🎓Academic role:
- - Professor of Software Engineering and AI -- since 2006
  - Main affiliation: Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), UK
  - Visiting Professorship in: Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU)
  - Member of the World Association of Azerbaijani Scientists (WAAS)
👨‍💻Practitioner role:
- - Consultant and Strategist in the areas of: Software Engineering, Software Testing, QA, and AI
  - Have provided consulting and corporate training to 55+ companies in different countries since 1998 (see details)

Areas of Expertise in Software Engineering (SE) and AI:

Research and Publication Areas "outside" SE and AI:

Azerbaijani studies. Current focus: pragmatic analysis of ethnic identity in North vs. South Azerbaijan; identity assimilation, manqurdism, and language suppression in South Azerbaijan, etc.
Migration studies, e.g., pragmatic analysis of why elites migrate, multi-hop migrations
Higher-education quality and governance. Current focus: diagnosing quality of higher-ed systems, e.g., Azerbaijan's; merit-entric versus politics-centric academic environments; implications and consequences of how schools in the UK and other countries have abandoned textbooks for EdTech