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Dr. Mersedeh Sadeghi

Research Fields and Interests


Software engineering,
Requirement engineering,
Explainable Cyber-physical system,
Explainable decision support and recommendation systems,
Application of Machine Learning in various domains
of software engineering,
Internet/web of things,
Distributed systems,
Interoperability of data-driven and distributed systems,
Semantic web technologies

Academic Information


Dr. Mersedeh Sadeghi received her Ph.D. in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Luciano Baresi at Politecnico di Milano, where she also earned her master's degree in Computing Systems. She was awarded the Telecom Italia  (TIM Group) Ph.D. scholarship, which enabled her to collaborate with the TIM Smart Space Innovation Lab during her doctoral studies. Her research focused on semantic and model-based approaches for context-aware services in smart environments.

Following her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Politecnico di Milano, contributing to several EU projects (including  Shift2Rail , IP4MaaS and SPRINT)  on modern software architecture and interoperability in distributed systems. She also served as a teaching assistant and supervised Master's and Ph.D. students.

Her current research focuses on explainable software systems, with interests in automated explanation generation, interactive explainability in cyber-physical systems, and decision support systems. She teaches courses on Requirement Management and Software Engineering.

Selected Publications


Sadeghi M, Carenini A, Corcho O, Rossi M, Santoro R and Vogelsang A (2024), “Interoperability of Heterogeneous Systems of Systems: From Requirements to a Reference Architecture”, In The Journal of Supercomputing, 80(7), pp. 8954–8987. Springer.

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Sadeghi M, Herbold L, Unterbusch M and Vogelsang A (2024), “Smartex: A Framework for Generating User-Centric Explanations in Smart Environments”, In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pp. 106–113. IEEE.

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Sadeghi M, Pöttgen D, Ebel P and Vogelsang A (2024), “Explaining the Unexplainable: The Impact of Misleading Explanations on Trust in Unreliable Predictions for Hardly Assessable Tasks”, In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, pp. 36–46.

Best Paper Award at UMAP 2024

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Sadeghi M, Sartor L and Rossi M (2022), “A Semantic-Based Access Control Approach for Systems of Systems”, In ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, 21(4), pp. 5–19. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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Sadeghi M, Klös V and Vogelsang A (2021), “Cases for Explainable Software Systems: Characteristics and Examples”, In 2021 IEEE 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), pp. 181–187. IEEE.

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Baresi L, Sadeghi M and Valla M (2018), “Tdex: A Description Model for Heterogeneous Smart Devices and GUI Generation”, In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings), Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom), and Smart Data (SmartData), pp. 97–104. IEEE.

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Teaching


Software Engineering - Graduate Course for Bachelor and Master of Science

Institute of Computer Science, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Requirement Management, Graduate/undergraduate Course

Department of Mathematic and Computer Science, University of Cologne

Project: Advanced (Agile) Software Engineering- Graduate Course for Master of Science

Institute of Computer Science, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Empirical Software Engineering - Graduate Course for Master of Science

Institute of Computer Science, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Seminar: Software Engineering for AI - Graduate Course for Master of Science

Institute of Computer Science, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Software Engineering II, Graduate Course

Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano

Software Methodologies and Architectures for Security

Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano

 

Other Scientific Activities


Guest Editor
Semantic Web journal (SWJ
Track: Special Issue on Transport Data on the Web

Organizing Committee 
3rd International Workshop on Semantics for Transport ( Sem4Tra2021
co-located with SEMANTiCS, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021

Chair
Software Architecture Models and Systems session 
The 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering SEKE2021, Pittsburgh, USA, 2021

Organizing Committee 
2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Transport (Sem4Tra2020)
co-located with 20th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2020), Helsinki, Finland, 2010

Committee Member 
W3C Workshop on Data Models for Transportation 
hosted by Uber Corporation, California, USA, 2019

Organizing Committee 
1st International Workshop on Semantics for Transport ( Sem4Tra2019
co-located with SEMANTiCS, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2019