Scholar
Stefan Biffl
Google Scholar ID: XMEZ1E8AAAAJ
TU Wien
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,247
H-index
27
i10-index
94
Publications
20
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0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Served as guest editor on journals for software technology and quality. Involved in organizing and program committees for international software engineering conferences including ECSA, ICSA, SPLC, SEAA, ESEM, EASE, ESEC/FSE, ICSE; quality and process improvement conferences including ICSSP and EurSPI; and software-intensive systems engineering conferences including IECON, ETFA, IFAC, and INDIN. Served as a reviewer on international software engineering journals including TSE, TOSEM, JSS, and IST; software-intensive systems and knowledge engineering journals including TII, IJSEKE, and TKDE; and on grant committees of the ERC and the Swiss National Foundation. Headed basic and applied research projects on engineering software-intensive systems with public funding for over 4 Mill. Euro, including the 7-year Christian Doppler research laboratory Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems.
Research Experience
- Co-lead at TU Wien Center for AI and Machine Learning (CAIML), special interest group for Business, on projects to explore improving business performance with AI applications since 2025. Supervisor in the TU Wien Doctoral College Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems since 2024. Senior advisor in the FFG project on Secure Risk Analysis in Digitalization, combining financial risk analysis.
Education
- Received MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology and an MS degree in social and economic sciences from the University of Vienna. In 2001, received an Erwin-Schrödinger research scholarship and spent one year as a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute of Experimental Software Engineering, focusing on quality management and empirical software engineering. Also, in 2001, received the Habilitation degree (Venia Docendi) in Praktische Informatik for work on empirical software engineering in project management and quality management. Worked as a guest researcher at Czech Technical University, Department of Cybernetics in 2006.
Background
- Research interests include Software and Systems Engineering Process Improvement, Multi-view Model Quality Analysis and Improvement, Knowledge-intensive processes: Knowledge representation, elicitation, management, transfer, Performance-Driven Knowledge Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems, Business and Technology Improvement Architecting, Architecture of software-intensive systems and processes, in particular, Collective Intelligence Systems, Value-based Software Engineering, putting human concerns in the center of digitalization projects, by taking up principles of Digital Humanism, Empirical Software Engineering, Collaboration in Software and Systems Engineering and Operation, Quality assurance for AI applications in software-intensive systems and processes, Engineering of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (Industry 4.0), Application focus: engineering, monitoring, and coordination of heterogeneous software-intensive systems in production, healthcare, and administration.
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