About Me

As a lifelong learner, I am currently an associate professor and curriculum lead of the Information Systems (IS) discipline at the School of Business, Law, Humanities and Pathways, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Prior to this, I was a senior lecturer at this school. Before that, I held a Lecturer position in Information Technology at the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong. Preceding this, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Having worked in the software industry prior to taking up an academic position, I have 8 x years of first-hand experience, as an analyst programmer and consultant, in implementing the core back-end of software systems for different industry sectors such as publishing, government, and insurance. I hold a PhD degree in Information Systems and Technology Management at the Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. I received both my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Software Engineering (SE) with First Class Honours, respectively, after obtaining my high school diploma in Software.

My research aims to support IT-based organisations in effectively analysing, designing, and adopting emerging technologies to create value and improve citizens’ quality of life. Much of my work in this area focuses on designing new development methods, frameworks, and strategies to help organisations in implementing their digital evolution endeavours. For example, my research in the context of digital evolution addresses a number of diverse topics that help organisations in the design, implementation, and integration of large-scale information systems with the emerging technologies such as ABCD (Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud computing, and big Data). I have secured or extensively contributed to several commercial external research funding of interdisciplinary projects including Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. As the lead author, my research outcomes have appeared in IS and SE venues such as European Journal of Information System (EJIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Information Sciences, Information Systems, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Information and Software Technology (IST), Pacific Asia Conference Information Systems (PACIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), among others. 

I am an associate editor of the ACM Computing Journal (CSUR) and have served as area associate editor, co-track chair, and reviewer for a large number of journals IS/SE venues such as ISJ, CAIS, JAIS, EJIS, ICIS, HICSS, ECIS, IEEE TSE, and TOSEM and competitive research grant programs including the ARC. 

Throughout my teaching career, I have taught a range of courses including cybersecurity, business information systems, software engineering, web programming, data structures and algorithms, business analytics, and database management systems. I have also taken a leadership role in various programs aimed at mentoring the next generation of students in the field of information technology. These include new course design and development, assistance in designing assessments, and contributing to curriculum and course development at the national and international levels.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaborations with me or have any questions. Also, I am happy to recruit master and PhD program applicants.

Outside academia—whenever time allows—I moonlight as a classical pop singer, proving that not all my notes belong in research papers. You can explore my musical journey on Instagram, Telegram, and YouTube🙂 

Career Timeline

My academic positions, in chronological order

● Associate Professor, Curriculum lead of IS, University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), October 2024 - ?

● Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), July 2021 - October 2024 

● Lecturer in Information Technology, University of Wollongong (UOW), March 2019 - July 2021

● Research Assistant, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), May 2020 - August 2020

● Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), September 2017 - December 2018

● PhD Student, University of New South Wales (UNSW), August 2012 - August 2017

● Prior to August 2012, I was working as analyst programmer in software industry (see somewhere else in this site for more details)

Awards 

● John Campbell Research Impact Award, Australasian Assoc. for IS and the Australian Council of Prof. and Heads of IS (ACPHIS), December 2025 

● Research excellence award (levels A, B, and C), Business School, University of Southern Queensland, October 2024

● Learning and teaching excellence award, Business School, University of Southern Queensland, October 2024

● Publication award, School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT), the University of Wollongong (UOW), April 2019

● Best paper award, paper: IoT Smart City Architectures: an Analytical Evaluation, 9th IEEE Annual Info. Techn., Electronics and Mobile Commu. Conf., 2018, link 

● PhD placement scholarship for research excellence, $3K, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Business School, 2016

Research Grants 

My commercial research has had a chance to acquire funds from different organizations and agencies. A summary of many of the key grants, either external or internal, funded projects that I played a key role as a member of team and some key research outputs are listed below. On other hand, I also list some of key unsuccessful research grants demonstrating how hardworking I am to acquire funds. Note that Chief Investigator (CI) in Australia is also known as Principle Investigator (PI) in Europe/US. 

● UniSQ Learning and Teaching Grant Category: AI Coach for Cyber Security Assessments–Assisting students in thinking about their thinking with Generative AI, 2025, AUS $2.5K

● ARC Linkage (LP230100083), Robust Defences against Adversarial Machine Learning for UAV Systems, University of Wollongong, 2024-2026, $445K 

● Visiting Research Fellow Grant, University of Borås, Sweden, representative output: here, 2023, $17K 

● Capacity Building Grants, Trustworthy AI for design science research, University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), 2023-2024, $12K 

● ARC Linkage (LP210300009), Empowering Australia’s Visual Arts via Creative Blockchain Opportunities, University of Wollongong, 2023-2024, $570K  

● Deanship of Scientific Research, Modernising Legacy Software as Mobile Systems, University of Ha’il, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2021, $6K 

● Visiting Research Fellow Grant, Development methods for implementing blockchain based systems, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2021, $7.5K   

● Early Career Researcher Grant, three-year scholarship to recruit PhD, University of Wollongong, suspended due to COVID-19 impact, 2019-2022, $98K

● Start-up grant, Exploring software engineering for developing Internet of Things (IoT) based systems, University of Wollongong, 2019, $10K 

● PhD Placement Scholarship for Research Excellence, Awarded scholarship, Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), 2016, $3K

Research Visits

● Visiting Researcher, University of Cork, Ireland, $12.5K grant funded, November 2024

● Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Boras, Sweden, $17K grant funded, November 2023

● Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, $7.5K grant funded, November 2021

Research Outputs

My research publications are at the intersection of Information Systems and Software Engineering fields. A selection of my lead-author publications is listed below, and a detailed list of all publications appears afterward. 

Selected list of lead-author top published articles:

[1] Mahdi Fahmideh, Babak Abedin, Jun Shen, June 2024, Towards an integrated framework for developing blockchain systems, Decision Support Systems, pp. 114181, DOI, CORE A*, ABDC A*, SJR Q1 

Output: a new integrated method, including key development tasks, roles, and models, to implement and deploy blockchain based systems.

[2] Mahdi Fahmideh, John Grundy, Aakash Ahmad, Jun Shen, Jun Yan, Davoud Mougouei, et al. 2022, Engineering Blockchain Based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions, ACM Computing Surveys CSUR, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1 

Output: a collection of techniques and guidelines for the end-to-end design and analysis of systems that rely on blockchain smart-contract technologies.

[3] Mahdi Fahmideh, Aakash Ahmad Abbasi, Ali Behnaz, John Grundy, Willy Susilo 2021, Software Engineering for Internet of Things: The Practitioners Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48, no. 8 (2021): 2857-2878, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1 

Output: an end to end development process of secured systems relying on the Internet of Things (IoT) validated by 120 experts.

[4] Mahdi Fahmideh, Didar Zowghi, 2020, An exploration of IoT platform development, Information Systems, vol. 87, pp. 101409, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1

Output: A new method to develop Internet of Things based systems in secured way. The most cited article between 2020-2023 (Scopus) 

[5] Mahdi Fahmideh, Farhad Daneshgar, Fethi Rabhi, Ghassan Beydoun, 2018, A generic cloud migration process model, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 233-255, DOI, CORE A*, ABDC A*, SJR Q1 

Output: a new reengineering method (architecture design activities, re-hosting/lift-shift, code refactoring) to integrate legacy systems with cloud services.

[6] Mahdi Fahmideh, Farhad Daneshgar, Ghassan Beydoun, Fethi Rabhi, 2017, Challenges in migrating legacy software systems to the cloud- an empirical study, Information Systems, vol. 67, pp. 100--113, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1 

Output: identifying key challenges in reengineering legacy systems to the cloud by modelling common activities and validating them with 104 industry experts.

[7] Mahdi Fahmideh, John Grundy, Ghassan Beydoun, Didar Zowghi, Willy Susilo, Davoud Mougouei 2022, A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing, Information and Software Technology, vol. 144, pp. 106795, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1 

Output: reengineering toolset to semi-automate the integration process of legacy systems with cloud platforms.

[8] Mahdi Fahmideh, Ghassan Beydoun, 2018, Reusing empirical knowledge during cloud computing adoption, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), vol. 138, pp. 124--157, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

Output: an innovative synergy between evidence-based software engineering and goal-oriented modelling to reengineer legacy software sys to cloud platforms. 

[9] Mahdi Fahmideh, Ghassan Beydoun, Graham Low, 2019, Experiential probabilistic assessment of cloud services, Information Sciences, vol. 502, pp. 510--524, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

Output: a new interactive goal reasoning approach for the precise analysis of legacy system reengineering to cloud while reducing performance and security risks.

[10] Mahdi Fahmideh, Farhad Daneshgar, Graham Low, Ghassan Beydoun, Cloud migration process: A survey, evaluation framework, and open challenges, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 31-69, 2016, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

Output: a detailed explanation of the cloud migration activities, techniques, and concerns that must be properly addressed in a typical cloud migration process is provided.

[11] Mahdi Fahmideh, Ghassan Beydoun, 2019, Big data analytics architecture design: an application in manufacturing systems, Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol. 128, pp. 948--963, DOI, SJR Q1 

Output: a new approach for goal-obstacle analysis for legacy architecture analysis and selecting suitable big data model satisfying system quality goal.

Full list of publications:

Please note the following list of papers is presented to ensure the timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by the authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Final published versions of most papers can be found via ACM Digital Library, IEEE Digital Library or Scopus. An updated list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar page.

Note: J: Journals, C: Conference, W: Workshop, R: Research report 

2025

[J28] Naghmeh Khajehali, Jun Yan, Yang-Wai Chow, Mahdi Fahmideh, Pow-MUCB: A new client selection method based on Pow-d and modified UCB for federated learning in IoT. Internet of Things, 101687, 2025, DOI, SJR Q1

[J27] Bakheet Aljedaani, Aakash Ahmad, Mahdi Fehmideh, Arif Ali Khan, Jun Shen, An Exploration Study on Developing Blockchain Systems-the Practitioners' Perspective. Information and Software Technology, 107825, 2025, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1 

[J26] Davoud Mougouei, Saima Rafi, Mahdi Fahmideh, Elahe Mougouei, Javed Ali Khan, Hoa Khanh Dam, Arif Nurwidyantoro, Michel Chaudron, Venturing ChatGPT's lens to explore human values in software artifacts: a case study of mobile APIs. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-37, 2025, DOI, SJR Q1

[J25] Akbar Telikani, Jun Shen, Bo Du, Mahdi Fahmideh, Jun Yan, A Periodic Adversarial Threat Model for Deep Neural Networks in Aerial Vehicle Detection, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI, SJR Q1

[C18] Davoud Mougouei, Ahmad Azarnik, Mahdi Fahmideh, A First Look at AI Trends in Value-Aligned Software Engineering Publications: Human-LLM Insights, 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), DOI, CORE A*

[W4] Orthodontic Predictions with Machine Learning, Khin Win, Mahdi Fahmideh, International conference on information systems (ICIS), DIGIT workshop https://aisel.aisnet.org/digit2024/20

2024

[J24] Mahdi Fahmideh, Babak Abedin, Jun Shen, Toward an integrated framework of developing blockchain systems, Decision support system, DOI, CORE A*, ABDC A*, SJR Q1

[C17] Tommi Mikkonen Muhammad Waseem, Teerath Das, Aakash Ahmad, Mahdi Fahmideh, Peng Liang, Using ChatGPT throughout the Software Development Life Cycle by Novice Developers, The 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), 2024, author's pre-print

2023

[J23] Arif Ali Khan, Javed Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Peng Zhou, Mahdi Fahmideh, Insights into software development approaches: mining Q &A repositories, Empirical Software Engineering, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

[J22] Danial Javaheri, Mahdi Fahmideh, Hassan Chizari, Pooia Lalbakhsh, Junbeom Hur, Cybersecurity threats in FinTech: A systematic review, Expert Systems with Applications, DOI, CORE B, SJR Q1

[J21] Abdul Razzaq, Aakash Ahmad, Asad Waqar Malik, Mahdi Fahmideh, Rabie A. Ramadan, Software engineering for internet of underwater things to analyze oceanic data, Internet of Things, 24, 2023, DOI, SJR Q1

[J20] Naghmeh Khajehali, Jun Yan, YW Chow, Mahdi Fahmideh, A Comprehensive Overview of IoT-Based Federated Learning: Focusing on Client Selection Methods, Sensors, 2023, DOI

[C16] Arif Ali Khan, Azeem Akbar Muhammad, Aakash Ahmad, Mahdi Fahmideh, Mohammad Shameem, Valtteri Lahtinen, Muhammad, Waseem, Tommi Mikkonen, Agile Practices for Quantum Software Development: Practitioners’ Perspectives, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW), 2023

[C15] Aakash Ahmad, Muhammad Waseem, Peng Liang, Mahdi Fahmideh, Mst Shamima Aktar and Tommi Mikkonen, Towards Human-Bot Collaborative Software Architecting with ChatGPT, International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) conference 2023, CORE A

[J19] Arif Ali Khan, Aakash Ahmad, Muhammad Waseem, Peng Liang, Mahdi Fahmideh, Tommi Mikkonen, Pekka Abrahamsson, Software architecture for quantum computing systems - a systematic review, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2023, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

[J18] Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Mahdi Fahmideh, Peng Liang, Muhammad Waseem, Aakash Ahmad, Mahmood Niazi, Pekka Abrahamsson, AI Ethics: An Empirical Study on the Views of Practitioners and Lawmakers, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2023, DOI, SJR Q1

2022

[J17] Lu, D., Zhai, Y., Shen, J., Mahdi Fahmideh, M., Wu, J., Tchaye-Kondi, J. and Zhu, L., TreeNet Based Fast Task Decomposition for Resource-Constrained Edge Intelligence. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2022, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1 

[J16] Mahdi Fahmideh; Grundy, John; Ahmad, Aakash; Shen, Jun; Yan, Jun; Davoud, Mougouei; Wang, Peng; Ghose, Aditya; Gunawardana, Anuradha; Aickelin, Uwe; Engineering for Blockchain Based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1 

[J15] Wu, Qiang; Wu, Jianqing; Shen, Jun; Du, Bo; Telikani, Akbar; Mahdi Fahmideh; Liang, Chao; Distributed agent-based deep reinforcement learning for large scale traffic signal control, Knowledge-Based Systems,2022, DOI, SJR Q1

[C14] Ahmad, Aakash; Khan, Arif Ali; Waseem, Muhammad; Mahdi Fahmideh; Mikkonen, Tommi; Towards Process Centered Architecting for Quantum Software Systems, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW), DOI, 2022

[C13] Mahdi Fahmideh; Ghassan, Beydoun; Bandara, Madhushi; Ahmad, Aakash; Shrestha, Anup; Khan, Arif; Role of ontologies in beach safety management analytics systems, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), DOI, 2022, CORE A

[J14] Ahmad, Aakash; Mahdi Fahmideh; Alkhalil, Adel; Almuraziq, Tareq; Abdulrahman, Alreshidi; Alanazi, Adwan; Altamimi, Ahmed; Modernising Legacy Software as Internet of Things-Based Application, IEEE Computer Society, Author's pre-print, 2022

[C13] Blockchain Meets Secured Microservice Architecture: A Trustworthy Consensus Algorithm, International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS), Author's pre-print, 2022

[C12] Khan, Arif Ali; Badshah, Sher; Liang, Peng; Waseem, Muhammad; Khan, Bilal; Ahmad, Aakash; Mahdi Fahmideh; Niazi, Mahmood; Akbar, Muhammad Azeem; Ethics of AI: A systematic literature review of principles and challenges, The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 383-392, 2022, DOI, CORE A

[W3] Khan, Arif Ali; Mahdi Fahmideh; Ahmad, Aakash; Waseem, Muhammad; Niazi, Mahmood; Lahtinen, Valtteri; Mikkonen, Tommi; Embracing Iterations in Quantum Software: A Vision, 1st International Workshop on Quantum Programming for Software Engineering, QP4SE'22, 2022, DOI

2021

[J13] Mahdi Fahmideh; Aakash, Ahmad; Behnaz, Ali; Grundy, John; Susilo, Willy; Software Engineering for Internet of Things: The Practitioners' Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2022, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1

[J12] Ahmad, Aakash; Mahdi Fahmideh; Altamimi, Ahmed B; Katib, Iyad; Albeshri, Aiiad; Alreshidi, Abdulrahman; Alanazi, Adwan; Mehmood, Rashid; Software Engineering for IoT-Driven Data Analytics Applications, IEEE Access,2022, DOI, SJR Q1

[J11] Mahdi Fahmideh; Yan, Jun; Shen, Jun; Mougouei, Davoud; Zhai, Yanlong; Ahmad, Aakash; A Comprehensive Framework for Analyzing IoT Platforms: A Smart City Industrial Experience Smart Cities Intelligent Edge Computing, 588-622,2022, DOI

[J10] Mahdi Fahmideh; Grundy, John; Beydoun, Ghassan; Susilo, Willy; Mougouei, Davoud; A Model-Driven Approach to Reengineering Processes in Cloud Computing, Information and Software Technology (IST), 2022, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

[C11] Mougouei, Davoud; Ghose, Aditya; Dam, Hoa; Mahdi Fahmideh; Powers, David;  A Fuzzy-Based Requirement Selection Method for Considering Value Dependencies in Software Release Planning, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE),2022, DOI 

[W2] Ahmad, Aakash; Bandara, Madhushi; Mahdi Fahmideh; Proper, Henderik A; Guizzardi, Giancarlo; Soar, Jeffrey; An Overview of Ontologies and Tool Support for COVID-19 Analytics, 21th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC) 2021, Workshop of AI for Health, 2022, DOI

[C10] Mahdi Fahmideh; Gunawardana, Anuradha; Chen, Shiping; Shen, Jun; Yecies, Brian; Blockchain Developments and Innovations - An Analytical Evaluation of Software Engineering Approaches, International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT), Springer, 2021, DOI

2020

[J9] Mahdi Fahmideh; Zowghi, Didar; An exploration of IoT platform development, Information Systems, 2021, DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1 (the most cited articles published in the past 3 years - since 2020. Source: Scopus, this ranking might be outdated as the journal window moves to new most cited publications over time)

2019

[J8] Mahdi Fahmideh; Daneshgar, Farhad; Rabhi, Fethi; Beydoun, Ghassan; A generic cloud migration process model, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), 283, 233-255, DOI, 2019, CORE A*, SJR Q1

[J7] Mahdi Fahmideh; Ghassan Beydoun, Graham Low; Experiential probabilistic assessment in adopting cloud services, Information Sciences, 2021, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

2018

[J6] Mahdi Fahmideh; Beydoun, Ghassan; Reusing empirical knowledge during cloud computing adoption, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2018, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

[J5] Mahdi Fahmideh; Beydoun, Ghassan; Big data analytics architecture design—an application in manufacturing systems, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 2018, DOI, SJR Q1

[C9] Mahdi Fahmideh; Zowghi, Didar; IoT Smart City Architectures: an Analytical Evaluation (best paper award), The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, 2018, DOI

[C8] Mahdi Fahmideh; Lammers, Thorsten; A study of influential factors in designing self-reconfigurable robots for green manufacturing, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Author's pre-print, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2018 

2017

[J4] Mahdi Fahmideh; Daneshgar, Farhad; Beydoun, Ghassan; Rabhi, Fethi; Challenges in migrating legacy software systems to the cloud—an empirical study, Information Systems, 100-113, 2017,DOI, CORE A*, SJR Q1

[R1] Mahdi Fahmideh; A Methodological Approach to Support Cloud Computing Migration, PhD Thesis, UNSW, Australia, 2017

2016

[J3] Mahdi Fahmideh; Daneshgar, Farhad; Low, Graham; Beydoun, Ghassan; Cloud migration process: A survey, evaluation framework, and open challenges, Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 31-69, 2016, DOI, CORE A, SJR Q1

[W1] Mahdi Fahmideh; Daneshgar, Farhad; Rabhi, Fethi; Cloud migration methodologies: preliminary findings, European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing–CloudWays Workshop, 2016, DOI

[C7] Mahdi Fahmideh; Daneshgar, Farhad; Fethi, Rabhi; Cloud Computing Adoption: An Effective Tailoring Approach, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Wollongong, Australia, 2016, DOI

2014

[J2] Mahdi Fahmideh; Sharifi, Mohsen; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Enhancing OPEN Process Framework with service-oriented method fragments, Software & Systems Modeling, 361-390, 2014, DOI

[J1] Khoshkbarforoushha, Alireza; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Mahdi Fahmideh; Wang, Lizhe; Ranjan, Rajiv; Metrics for BPEL process reusability analysis in a workflow system, IEEE Systems Journal, 36-45, 2016, DOI

2011

[C6] Mahdi Fahmideh; Shams, Fereidoon; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Toward a methodological knowledge for service-oriented development based on open meta-model, International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems, 631-643, 2011, DOI

[C5] Mahdi Fahmideh; Sharifi, Mohsen; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Shams, Fereidoon; Haghighi, Hassan; Process patterns for service-oriented software development, Fifth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2011, DOI

2010

[C4] Mahdi Fahmideh;  Process patterns for developing decision making support systems, DOI, (in Persian) 2010

[C3] Mahdi Fahmideh; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Shams, Fereidoon; A procedure for extracting software development process patterns, Fourth UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modeling and Simulation, 75-83, 2010, DOI

[C2] Mahdi Fahmideh; Habibi, Jafar; Shams, Fereidoon; Khoshnevis, Sedigheh; Criteria-Based evaluation framework for service-oriented methodologies, 12th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, 122-130, 2010, DOI

[C1] Mahdi Fahmideh; Ramsin, Raman; Strategies for improving MDA-based development processes, International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation, 152-157, 2010, DOI

[C0] Mahdi Fahmideh, Evaluating model driven methodologies using capability maturity models, (in Persian)

[C] Mahdi Fahmideh, Process patterns for developing decision making support systems (in Persian), link

Service to Research Community and Leadership

● Journal Associate Editor 

    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2023 - now

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2026 - ? 

    Discover Internet of Things–Springer

● Conference Associate Editor 

    ECIS (European Conference on Information Systems), IS for Resilience and Sustainable Development track, 2026

    ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems), Computational Design and Evaluation track, 2026 

● Guest Editor 

    Special issue in the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), 2025

    Special issue in the journal of Information and Software Technology (IST), 2022

    Special issue in the journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing – Elsevier, 2022

● Workshop organiser

    First workshop on Data Intelligence, co-loacted at ACIS 2025

    Third workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software Systems, (PPQS’24) 

    Second workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software Systems, (PPQS’23) 

    First workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software Systems (PPQS'22), Co-located with PROFES, November 2022, slide pack for keynote speaker, link 

● Co-Track Chair and Program Committee (PC) Member

    Co-track chair 2025, 20th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST2025)

    Co-track chair 2024, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)

    Co-track chair 2023, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)

    Co-track chair 2023, Second Workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software (PPQS’23)

    Co-track chair 2021, Exploring Modelling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD)

    PC member 2026, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST)

    PC member 2023, ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conf. and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Eng. (ESEC/FSE)

    PC member 2023, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST)

    PC member 2022, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST)

    PC member 2022, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), recognition: here

    PC member 2021, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)

    PC member 2021, International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)

    PC member 2021, DevOps Quality Management (Göteborg, Sweden, 13-15 June 2022)

    PC member 2018, Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

● Invited Review Services

    Annually, I provide review services for different venues. Some examples are below:

    Information Systems Journal (ISJ) 

    European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) 

    Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS)

    Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)

    International Journal of Information Management (IJIM)

    Australasian Journal of Information System (AJIS)

    The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

    Information Systems Frontiers (ISF)

    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), recognition

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

    IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC)

    Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

    Journal of Software and Systems Modelling (SoSyM), review certificate

    Journal of Cloud Computing

    Computer Standards & Interfaces

    Business Process Management Journal

    MDPI Software

    Complex and Intelligent Systems 

    International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management

    Book review: Henderson-Sellers, Pär J. Ågerfalk, Matti Rossi, Situational method engineering (pp. 1-274), Heidelberg: Springer. Chicago

● I am regularly reviewing for international conferences such as:

    International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

    Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)

    International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)

    International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution

    International Conference on Software Architecture

    European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ECSOCC)

    Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC)

● Examiner 

     I am regularly serving as an examiner of PhD thesis and master by research for different universities such as Adelaide university, Macquarie university, and others.

● Detailed assessor of Australian Research Council (ARC)

Talks 

Some talks I've given that may or may not be of interest... 

● Invited talk at University of Queensland Technology (QUT), Toward Next generation design science for responsible AI, October 2025, .ppt

● 7th Conference on Advances in Enterprise Architecture, developing systems relying on blockchain smart contract technologies, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, May 2023, .pdf

● Petra Christian University, Indonesia, adopting development methods for the successful implementation of IoT-based systems, May 2023, .ppt 

● Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), July 2022, development of ontological models for analytics models, .ppt , paper  

●Winter School of Software Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, August 2019.ppt

● My presentation 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, November 2018, .ppt

● 27th Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), December 2016, Github (Microsoft C# and .Net framework updates might be needed to run the application), .ppt

● Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, November 2015, .ppt 

Teaching  

My teaching philosophy. I have a self-made quote to inspire my teaching success: I strive to make my students an improved copy of myself. A commendable student, in my view, is the one whom I can acquire valuable knowledge and insights. Coming from a middle-class background and being the first in my family to pursue higher education, I grew up in remote region of Esfahan in Iran, where educational resources such as library and science lab were not accessible. Despite these limitations, many of my peers achieved remarkable success in their careers, challenging the notion that traditional classrooms are solely reliant on such resources. Reflecting on my own academic journey, I have learned how life-changing potential of education is a compassionate educator who respects students and provides a foundation to cultivate elite and upper-class citizens. This transformative experience has shaped my teaching philosophy to build meaningful connections with my students. I like research and teaching and I believe it is one of the best things about being an academic.

My teaching approach aims at motivating and challenging students to become lifelong learners, critical-thinker, and sceptical who positively contribute to people’s lives, communities, and workplace. My teaching approach constitutes three components of (i) industry driven teaching and learning, (ii) navigating emerging technologies through core research fundamentals, and (iii) cyclical learning development.

Industry-driven teaching and learning. The first component of my teaching approach, grounded in Borrell-Damian’s framework, is to promote practical skills development and prepare students for real-world challenges in future careers. Drawing from my 8 years of software industry experience, I share my real-world scenarios to enhance student learning, engagement, and help them see the relevance of the concepts to practice. This allows students to connect theory with real-life situations and inspire them to apply their knowledge and develop innovative ideas.

Navigating emerging technologies through core research fundamentals. The second component of my teaching approach, inspired by Webster’s theory, highlights the importance of understanding the fundamental principles that underpin advancements in information technologies field and how this knowledge enables students to navigate and adapt to emerging technologies. The component roots in the belief that although information technologies are continuously evolving, the underlying technical foundation remains relatively constant. Through providing students with a deep understanding of key foundations of information technologies operating on the binary logic of 0 & 1 digits, they can effectively comprehend and apply emerging technologies. I often employ the analogy that knowledge of the English alphabets is akin to understanding the fundamental concepts of IT. As one can construct words, sentences, and a book with letters, students who equipped with a solid foundation of information technologies can navigate new technologies with ease. I strive to instil in my students the ability to connect the dots between different fundamental concepts, enabling them to effectively analyse and apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios. In this spirit, I often leverage my research data to equip my students with the necessary skills to thrive in an ever-evolving technological landscape and to continually expand their expertise throughout their professional careers.

Cyclical learning development. My third component of my teaching approach, based on Arjomandi’s framework, emphasizes actively support student progression at all stages of their program. I believe it is essential for educators to employ repeated practice aiding in their learning development improving skill acquisition through regular engagement and practice. I operationalise this by providing both formative and summative assignments and feedback. These assure my students get better understanding about course material.

Through these three components my students have inspired to continue their study program by taking additional courses or pursuing a HDR program under my supervision. This reflects the quality of my teaching and its impact on improving students' enthusiasm and commitment to further their knowledge and expertise.

I have been fortunate enough to be a lecturer in several undergrad and post-grad subjects at University of Southern Queensland (USQ), University of Wollongong (UOW), University of New South Wales (UNSW), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and Western Sydney University, among others, each with an invaluable insight into different teaching styles and assessment strategies. Following the guidelines and principles in VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) framework, I use innovative teaching methods such as online delivery of course materials, flipped classroom, problem-based learning, and constructivism approach to course delivery, which enabled me to teach students with mixed abilities.

● University of Southern Queensland

Master of Information Systems Professional (MISP)

CIS5205-Management of Information Security

CIS5206-Data Mining for Business Analytics and Cyber Security (Rapidminer as software tool)

Master of Cyber Security (MCYS) 

CIS8707-Cyber Incident Management and Response

CIS8712-Information Assurance and Risk Management

CIS8708-Digital Forensics (Splunk as software tool)

CIS8720-Cyber Security Project (Final project)

CSC8411-Project

● University of Wollongong

As lecturer in information technology, I tough:

Software Development Methodologies (Postgraduate) 

System development methodologies (Undergraduate)

Back-end Web Programming (Undergraduate)

Algorithms and Data Structures (Undergraduate)

Data Management and Security (Undergraduate)

Principles of e-Business (Undergraduate)

Professional Practice and Research Project (Postgraduate)

● University of Technology Sydney

As a tutor, I tough:

Agile software development (Undergraduate)

Database management (Undergraduate)

Introduction to Information Systems (Undergraduate)

Design and Innovation Fundamentals (Undergraduate)

● University of Western Sydney

As a lecturer, I tough (one semester):

Systems Analysis and Design (Undergraduate)

● University of New South Wales

As a tutor, I tough:

Enterprise database management (Undergraduate)

● Asia Pacific International College (APIC), Sydney

As a lecturer, I tough (two semesters):

Enterprise database management (Undergraduate)

Introduction to Information Systems (Undergraduate)

System development methodologies (Undergraduate)

● MIT Sydney

     Network project management (Undergraduate)

● Nomination

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Recognition of Learning and Teaching, January 2021

Still, there are lots to learn and improve my teachin.

Honors  

● Ranked 5th among 600 PhD applicants in the national wide entrance exam of Azad Universities, Iran, February 2010 

● Recipient of M.Sc. degree in software engineering with A+ honor, Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran, January 2010

● Ranked 3rd in the nation wide high school diploma computer science competition, Mashhad, Iran, January 2001

Software Industry Experience 

I have 8 years of real world experience in implementing core back-end of software systems for industry sectors of accounting, insurance, and defence and to integrate legacy software systems with new Internet-based platforms. I have deep experience in software engineering practices, object oriented analysis and design, software development methodologies such as Agile Scrum, and Rational Unified Process (RUP), information modeling techniques such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), software patterns, software architecture design, and programming languages such as C++, C#, Object Pascal, and Assembly. An excerpt of experience in information technology (IT), which has been accredited as an analyst programmer (ANZSCO 261311) by Australian Computer Society and consultant, is listed in the following. 

 ● IoT Alliance Australia 2018 (part-time/post-doc), role: IoT & Data Analytics solution architect & Researcher

 ● Nashr IT of the institution representing the leadership in universities, Tehran, Iran March 2012–Aug 2012 (full-time), role: analyst programmer

 ● IK Relief Foundation, Tehran, Iran September 2009 – August 2011 (full-time), role: analyst programmer

 ● Soraya, Mashhad, Iran April 2007 – February 2008 (part-time), role: analyst programmer

 ●Compulsory Military service to government, Mashhad, Iran, role: providing a wide range of services to the police department including statistical analysis, preparing letters and journals, and cleaning service :), October 2006 – February 2008 (full-time), I completed the rest of my military service in May 2010 after my master program study.

 ● Doctor Sheikh Hospital, Mashhad, Iran March 2006 – October 2006 (full-time), role: analyst programmer

 ● Between June 2003 and September 2005, as a student, I was working as a programmer based on casual contracts for different clients 

 ● Ghods daily agency, As a student, I was working as a programmer based on casual contracts, Mashhad, Iran, December 2001 and February 2003

Associations 

● Association of Information Systems (AIS)

● Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

● Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

● Australian Information Security Association (AISA)

● Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Academic Qualifications

● Ph.D., Information Systems and Technology Managment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, PhD thesis, August 2012 - August 2017

● M.Sc., Software Eng., Azad Uni. Science and Research, Tehran, Iran, A+ honours, master thesis (in Persian), and here, here, and here, Feb. 2006 - May 2009

● B.Sc., Software Engineering (Azad University, Mashhad, Iran), A+ honours, project report (in Persian), February 2003 - February 2006

● Associate of Computer-Software (Montazeri Technical College, Mashhad, Iran), September 1999 - July 2002

● Diploma in Computer-Software Programming, (Technical High School, jointly in Mashhad and Esfahan, Iran), September 1997 - July 1999