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Contact Information

Name Faiz Ali Shah
Professional Title PhD, Computer Science | Lecturer of Software Engineering
Email faiz.ali.shah@ut.ee
Phone +372 56034641
Location Institute of Computer Science, Tartu, Tartu 50090

Professional Summary

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Software Engineering at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu. My research vision is to advance software engineering by creating intelligent, trustworthy, and autonomous systems that ensure the quality and reliability of complex software through AI-driven testing, repair, and self-healing.

Experience

  • 2022 - present

    Tartu, Estonia

    Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Software Engineering
    University of Tartu
    Faculty member at the Institute of Computer Science. Teach BSc and MSc courses, supervise PhD and MSc students, and conduct AI4SE research.
  • 2020 - 2022

    Islamabad, Pakistan

    Assistant Professor
    COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI)
    Department of Computer Science. Course responsible for Natural Language Processing, Software Testing, and Data Science.
  • 2018 - 2020

    Tartu, Estonia

    Junior Research Fellow of Software Engineering
    University of Tartu
  • 2010 - 2015

    Islamabad, Pakistan

    Lecturer
    COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI)
  • 2006 - 2009

    Islamabad, Pakistan

    Software Developer
    Emcentrix Private Limited

Interests

AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE): LLM-based program repair, automated testing, intelligent agents for software maintenance
Software Testing: Self-driving car testing, regression testing, synthetic test data, test selection
Software Maintenance and Evolution: Autonomous defect repair, self-healing systems, code understanding
Empirical Software Engineering: Case studies, replication studies, app review mining, requirements engineering

Education

  • 2015 - 2020

    Tartu, Estonia

    PhD
    University of Tartu
    Computer Science
    • Thesis “Extracting Information from App Reviews to Facilitate Software Development Activities”
    • Examiners: Dr. Sebastiano Panichella (ZHAW, Switzerland) and Dr. Alessandra Gorla (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
    • Awarded a full research scholarship
  • 2009 - 2012

    Lahore, Pakistan

    MSc
    University of Central Punjab (UCP)
    Computer Science / Software Engineering

Awards

  • 2025
    Best-Performing Test Selection Tool — ICST Tool Competition 2025
    International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

    Recognised for the ITS4SDC tool in the Self-Driving Car Testing Track.

  • 2009
    HEC Scholarship Award
    Higher Education Commission, Pakistan

    Scholarship for the Master of Computer Science programme.

  • 2006
    2nd Place, LMKR Software Competition
    LMKR

    Final Year Project recognition.

External International Collaboration

Generating and Evolving Real-life Like Synthetic Data: With Dr. Daniel Rodríguez García (University of Alcalá, Spain) and Dr. Rudolf Ramler (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria).
Digital Data Twin for Predictive Maintenance: With Dr. Sabah Suhail and Dr. Kieran McLaughlin, Centre for Secure Information Technologies, Queen's University Belfast, UK.

Service to the Research Community

Journal Reviewing: Empirical Software Engineering; Information and Software Technology; PeerJ Computer Science; e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal; IEEE Access.
Conference Organisation and Reviewing: Tools and Datasets Committee, ASE 2026; Short Papers and Posters Committee, PROFES 2024 & 2025; Reviewer for SAC 2024, FIT 2023, APSEC 2022, EASE 2020; Student Volunteer, FSE 2019; FIT Conference Organising Committee, CUI 2021–2022.
PhD Internal Reviewer: Alejandra Duque Torres (University of Tartu) — Classifying, Constraining, and Ranking Metamorphic Relations; Mahmoud Shoush (University of Tartu) — Prescriptive Process Monitoring Under Uncertainty and Resource Constraints.

Administration and Management

University of Tartu: Member, MSc (Software Engineering) Admission Review Committee (2022–2026); Member, PhD Student Interview Committee (2023); Member, Thesis Evaluation Committee (2022–present).
COMSATS University Islamabad: Member, Faculty Hiring Committee (2020–2022); Head, Final Year Project Evaluation Committee (2020–2022); Member, Final Year Project Evaluation Committee (2010–2015).

Publications Summary

Bibliometrics (Google Scholar, accessed 2026-05-08): Citations 705 (since 2020: 531); h-index 11 (since 2020: 10); i10-index 12 (since 2020: 11).
Peer-reviewed Output: 10 journal papers and 18 conference/workshop papers, plus 2 open-access datasets. See the Publications page for the full list.