Vahid Garousi - Academic / Community

Academic and Community Services/Leadersghip

Leadership roles in international conferences:

Co-organizer, 4th IEEE Workshop on NEXt level of Test Automation (NEXTA) 2021, co-located with the IEEE ICST conference
PC co-chair, Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14-17, 2019
Chair of the Organizing Committee for the 9th International Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE) 2018, co-located with the IEEE eScience conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 29, 2018
Co- chair, “Software test engineering” track of the 11th Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium (UYMS), 2014-2017
General Chair, Fourth International Workshop on Regression Testing (Regression 2014), co-located with the ICST conference, April 2014
Workshop chair, International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS), Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 13-15, 2013
Co-organizer of the first Software Testing Education Workshop (STEW) 2009, Co-located with the ICST conference, April 1, 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA

Moderating the keynote speech by Professor Per Runeson in the Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2019

Co-organized a programming “contest” (development of mobile apps) for university and high-schools students, in Atilim University in Turkey, 2014, in collaboration with several software companies. The event attracted over 100 students. The photo is from the award ceremony.

University-level commitees and services:

I have actively served in various university commitees. Some of those leadership roles have included membership of: Academic Periodic Review Panel, and Personal Tutor Co-ordinator in Queen’s University Belfast, Graduate Scholarship Committee, Faculty hiring committee, and Engineering Internship committee in the University of Calgary.
Further details can be found in my CV.

Membership in journal editorial boards:

Associate Editor, IEEE Software magazine, since April 2020
Associate Editor, IET Software journal, since Feb. 2019
Associate Editor, Iranian Journal of Computer Science, published by Springer, since Feb. 2016

In the past:

Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CJECE), published by IEEE Canada, Jan. 2013-March 2020

Reviewer of international standards:

Invited reviewer for the “TMMi in the Agile world” specification, Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi ) Foundation, February 2019
Invited reviewer for draft of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 (Software Testing Standard), March 2014

Membership in the Program Committees (PC) of international conferences:

I actively serve in the PC of many international conferences and workshops.