🎓Academic role:
Professor of Software Engineering and AI
Member of the World Association of Azerbaijani Scientists (WAAS)
👨💻Practitioner role: Software Engineering, Software Testing / QA Consultant
👨🏻🏫Other scholarly work:
Author of books and papers in other areas, including: Azerbaijani studies (e.g., ethnic identity, assimilation), migration, higher-education quality and governance
🌍Ethnic root: Azerbaijani Turkic
🛂Citizenship: Canadian, British
📍Based in: Belfast, UK
Areas of Expertise in Software Engineering (SE) and AI:
Software Engineering
Software Testing and Software Quality Assurance (QA)
AI-assisted (-powered, -augmented, ...) Software Engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Process Improvement
Action-research
Industry-academia Collaborations
Engineering (development of) scientific software (research software)
Research and Publication Areas "outside" SE and AI:
Azerbaijani studies (main current focus: pragmatic analysis of ethnic identity, assimilation, language suppression, comparing North vs. South Azerbaijan, and related issues)
Migration studies (main focus: migration of elite)
Higher-education quality and governance (current focus: diagnosing quality of higher ed systems, merit-entric versus politics-centric academic environments, how UK schools have abandoned textbooks for EdTech)