Panellist

• “DAI for DEI: Using Data and AI for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” in the conference on “Beyond tomorrow: technology, process and people”, arranged by ISACA Melbourne Chapter, 5 September 2024.

• “Artificial Intelligence in Education” in celebration of Accounting Month, organized by the Business School, Monash University, 21 August 2024.

• “Chai, Chat and Community (Season 6, Episode 15): Women in STEM”, organized on the occasion of Australia’s National Science Week, 11 August 2024. Discussion topic was “My STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) journey of breaking the concrete ceiling”, 11 August 2024.

• “Career Networking Night- Diversity in Tech” arranged by Monash DeepNeuron, Monash University, 2022.

Organizer

• 2nd Symposium on “Diversity and Inclusion in AI”, CSIRO (will be held on 14-15 November 2024)

• Symposium on “Diversity and Inclusion in AI”, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia, October 15, 2023

• Monash Software Research Students (MSRS) Meetups (January 2021 – March 2022). Target audiences were early career researchers (Monash University Faculty of IT staff, PhD, MPhil and Master students)

Organizing Committee Member

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Chair, 18th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP), Co-located conference with the European System, Software & Service Process Improvement & Innovation (EuroSPI^2), 2024

• Publicity Co-chair, 17th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP), Co-located conference of ICSE, 2023

Program Committee Member

• 18th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP), Co-located conference with the European System, Software & Service Process Improvement & Innovation (EuroSPI^2), 2024

• The 9th International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering 2024 (EmpiRE)

• IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE), 2024

• IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE), 2023

• 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023

• 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering (RE’22), 2022

• 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA), 2021

Reviewer

• Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE)

• ACM Computing Survey

• Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

• Information and Software Technology (IST) Journal

• Journal of AI and Ethics

• Software Engineering for Responsible AI, Journal of Computer

• Workshop on Human Centric Software Engineering and Cyber security (HCSE&CS), Co-hosted by 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

• IEEE Software: Special Issues on Digital Twins

Session Chair

• “AI for Requirements Engineering” at 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’22)

Shadow PC Member

• Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2021

• ACM SIGCAS Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 2021

Volunteer

• Volunteer of CSIRO’s education and outreach activities

• 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’21), 2021

• 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2021

• 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2021

Artifacts Contributor

• “The dataset of the paper titled- Exploring Human Values in the Requirements for AI Systems”, 2022. [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7347647]

• “The dataset of the PhD thesis titled- Operationalizing Values in Mobile Applications: A Mixed-Methods Empirical Study on Agriculture Apps for Bangladeshi Female Farmers”, 2022. [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5878266]

• “The dataset of the paper titled- Investigating End-Users’ Values in Agriculture Mobile Applications Development: An Empirical Study on Bangladeshi Female Farmers”, 2022. [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6370062]

• “The dataset of the paper titled- Human Values in Mobile App Development: An Empirical Study on Bangladeshi Agriculture Mobile Apps”, 2021 [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5232750]

• “Society-Oriented Applications Development”, 2020 [GitHub Link: https://github.com/researchart/rose6icse/tree/master/submissions/reusable/society-oriented-applications-development]

• “Human Values in Software Engineering Publications, 2015-2018”, 2020 [GitHub Link: https://github.com/researchart/rose6icse/tree/master/submissions/available/prevalenceValuesPublications]

Tech Blog Writer

• Rifat Ara Shams, “AI for All: Mapping out the Journey from Diversity Errors to Inclusion Excellence”, Women in Security Magazine, 2024.

[Link: https://issuu.com/source2create/docs/women_in_security_magazine_issue20 (Page 70)]

• Rifat Ara Shams, “Can a Software Reflect Values of Under-represented Users?”, IEEE Software Blog, IEEE Computer Society, 2019

[Link: http://blog.ieeesoftware.org/2019/09/female-farmers-values-based-apps.html]