Dr. Maalej is a professor of informatics and an award-winning researcher. His interests include Software and AI Engineering, Modern Requirements Engineering, User Feedback Intelligence, Digital Design, Responsible AI, as well as Psychology and Communication.
Does Generative AI Make Usability Testing Obsolete? Our new ICSE'25 paper, co-authored with Ali Ebrahimi Pourasad, reports on a study we conducted to answer this question.
How do programming students use ChatGPT? And what can we learn from this? Our observational study (published at FSE'25) shows that concerns about potential decrease in programmers' agency and productivity with Generative Ai are justified.
Recently reported issues concerning the acceptance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions after deployment, e.g. in the medical, automotive, or scientific domains, stress the importance of RE for designing and delivering Responsible AI systems. In this paper, we argue that RE should not only be carefully conducted but also tailored for Responsible AI. We outline related challenges for research and practice.
Our work on data-mining blogs and related artifacts in open source communities received the MSR'21 Most Influential Paper Award. Time to reflect.
Confirmation bias is one of the most dangerous human biases, particularly when it is combined with a lack of knowledge in a certain topic.
How do I use Google Scholar pages for evaluating research impact? Google scholar has become a very popular tool in academia, but at the same time, a very controversial tool too: While some colleagues love it because it enables to quickly assess t...
Dr. Clara Lüders successfully defended her doctoral thesis on "Mining and Understanding Issue Links Towards a Better Management"
