1. Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2020-2025
2. Associate Editor: Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2021-2024
3. Advisory Board Member: Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2024 to date
4. Senior Associate Editor: Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 2017-2025
5. Editorial Board Member: Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2015 to date
6. Editorial Board Member: Information and Software Technology Journal (IST) 2019 to date
7. Editorial Board Member: Software Quality Journal (SQJ) 2020-2024
8. Review Board Member: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2017-2023

Steering/ Organising Committee

• ICSE'21: 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (Data Chair)
• ESEM: International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (2017 - 2019)
• PROMISE: International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (2012 - 2018)
• RAISE: International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (2014 - 2021)

General Chair

• EASE'23: 27th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
• PROMISE: International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (2016 - 2018)

PC Chair

• (Co-chair) 11th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'17)
• (Co-chair)18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'17)
• 9th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'13)
• (Co-chair) 7th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’19 in ICSE’19)
• (Co-chair) 5th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’16 in ICSE’16)
• (Co-chair) 4th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’15 in ICSE’15)
• (Co-chair) 3rd International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’14 in ICSE’14)

Workshops & Tutorials Chair

• 13th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'12)

Proceedings Chair

• 11th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'15)

Publicity Chair

• 10th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'14)
• 2nd International NSF sponsored Workshop on Realizing AI Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’13 in ICSE'13)
• 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'12)
• NSF Workshop: Planning Future Directions in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE’12)

Social Media Chair

• 10th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'16)

Local Organizing Committee

• 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'11)
• 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'05)
• 8th International Symposium on Computer Networks (ISCN'08)
• 7th International Symposium on Computer Networks (ISCN'06)
• 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'07)

1. 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’25)
2. 2nd International Workshop on Methodological Issues with Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (WSESE’25)
3. 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’24)
4. 25th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES’24)
5. 24th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP’23) - Research Workshop: AI-Assisted Agile Software Development
6. 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’22)
7. 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021)
8. 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’21)
9. 22nd International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES’21)
10. 47th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA’21) Track: AI4DevOps
11. Security, AI, Architecture and Modelling for Next Generation Mobility (Eclipse SAAM Mobility'21)
12. 14th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’20)
13. 16th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering(PROMISE'20)
14. 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’19)
15. 13th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’19)
16. 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC'19)
17. 15th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering(PROMISE'19)
18. 45th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA’19) Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
19. 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’18)
20. 44th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA’18) Track: Software Management: Measurement, Peopleware and Innovation
21. 44th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA’18) Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
22. 44th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA’18) Track: Software Analytics
23. 30th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’18)
24. 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC’18)
25. 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Curricula for Millennials (SECM’18, in ICSE’18)
26. (ERP Member) 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017)
27. 43rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications(SEAA’17) Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
28. 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’17) Track: Software Engineering in Practice
29. 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’16)
30. 12th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering(PROMISE'16)
31. 17th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'16)
32. 42nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications(SEAA’16) Track: Software Management
33. 42nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications(SEAA’16) Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
34. 28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering(SEKE’16)
35. 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’15)
36. 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’15): Industrial Experience Track
37. (ERP Member) 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015)
38. 11th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering(PROMISE'15)
39. 41st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'15) Track: Software Management
40. 41st EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'15) Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
41. 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE'15)
42. 16th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'15)
43. 16th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP'15): Industry & Practice Track
44. 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering(SEKE'15)
45. 9th National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS'15)
46. 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’14): Short Papers and Posters Track
47. 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’14): Industrial Experience Track
48. 10th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'14)
49. 15th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'14)
50. 15th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'14) Doctoral Symposium
51. 15th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP'14) Workshops and Tutorials Track
52. 2nd International Workshop on Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering (DAPSE'14, in ICSE'14)
53. 40th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'14) Track: Software Management
54. 40th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'14) Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
55. 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering (AIRE'14)
56. The 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'14)
57. 7th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’13): Short Papers and Posters Track
58. 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Early Research Achievements Track (ICSM ERA'13)
59. 39th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'13) Special Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
60. 2nd International NSF sponsored Workshop on Realizing AI Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’13, in ICSE'13)
61. International Workshop on Data Analysis Patterns in Software Engineering (DAPSE'13, in ICSE'13)
62. 14th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'13)
63. 3rd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology: Computational Intelligence Applications in Software Engineering – Special Session (CIASE'13)
64. 13th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES'12): Short Papers
65. NSF Workshop: Planning Future Directions in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE’12)
66. 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'12)
67. 38th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'12) Special Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
68. 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'11)
69. 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'11) Special Track: Estimation and Prediction in Software Engineering
70. 3rd National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS'11)
71. 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'10)
72. 19th Annual International Conference of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON'09)
73. 2nd National Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS'09)

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1. External Member of Tenure-Track Professorship - Aalto University (2026)
2. External Assessor for Professorship - LUT (2025)
3. External Assessor for Professor of Practice- University of Jyv ̈askyl ̈a (2025)
4. External Member of Appointment Committee for Tenure-Track Professorship - University of Tampere (2025)
5. External Assessor for Professorship - ̊Abo Akademi University (2023)
6. External Evaluator for Professorship - University of Yarmouk (2022)
7. External Evaluator for Docentship - Lappeenranta University of Technology (2021)
8. Member of IEEE TCSE New Directions Award Panel (2021, 2022)
9. Member of ACM SIGSOFT Paper and Peer Review Quality Task Force (2019-2020)
10. Expert Witness for the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Australia (2020)
11. CORE Journal ranking committee - 0803 (Software Engineering) (2019)
12. ARC Detailed Assessor (2019)
13. External Evaluator for Professorship - University of Helsinki (2018)
14. Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2013)
15. Research Council of Norway (2011)
16. Expert Witness for the Turkish judicial courts in 10+ IT related cases, 2005 - 2008.

1. Invited Talk: Beyond Code: The Strategic Impact of Generative AI on the Software Development Lifecycle, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct 2025.
2. Invited Talk: Bittium Veturi and SW4E Joint Event, Tampere, Finland, Nov 2024.
3. Invited Talk: FIIF Event: Harnessing the power of LLMs like ChatGPT in software development, Helsinki, Finland, Oct 2024.
4. Invited Panel Speaker: AI-Assisted Software Engineering, Pori, Finland, May 2023.
5. Keynote Speaker: PROFES’22, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 2022.
6. Invited Talk: Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, December 2019.
7. Invited Talk: Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia, February 2018.
8. Invited Talk: Ryerson Univ., Toronto, Canada, June 2016.
9. Invited Talk: Brunel University, London, UK, November 2015.
10. Inauguration Lecture: University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, August 2015.
11. Invited Talk: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2015.
12. Invited Panel Speaker: ISERN’14, Turin, Italy, September 2014.
13. Invited Talk: Carnegie Mellon University, Mountain View, US, May 2014.
14. Invited Lecturer: Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, March 2014
15. Invited Talk: Ryerson Univ., Toronto, Canada, May 2013.
16. Invited Talk: Ryerson Univ., Toronto, Canada, June 2012.
17. Invited Panel Speaker: PROMISE’11, Ban↵, Canada, September 2011.
18. Invited Talk: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Dec 2010.
19. Invited Talk: ScanAgile Conference, Finland, October 2009

1. Visiting Professor: (30 days) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, December 2023.
2. Visiting Professor: (20 days) University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, December 2019.
3. Invited Participant: (4 days) Shonan Seminar on Data-driven Search-based Software Engineering, Japan, December 2017
4. Visiting Professor: (17 days) Ryerson Univ., Toronto, CA, June 2016.
5. Visiting Professor: (4 days) Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, December 2015.
6. Visiting Professor: (4 days) Brunel University, UK, November 2015.
7. Visiting Professor: (3 days) University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2015.
8. Visiting Professor: (21 days) Carnegie Mellon University, Mountain View, US, May 2014.
9. Invited Participant: (6 days) Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Analytics, Germany, June 2014.
10. Visiting Professor: (5 days) BTH SERL, Karlskrona, Sweden, June 2014.
11. Visiting Professor: (7 days) Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, March 2014.
12. Visiting Researcher: (7 days) BTH SERL, Karlskrona, Sweden, March/April 2013.
13. Visiting Researcher: (15 days) Ryerson Univ., Toronto, CA, November 2012.
14. Visiting Researcher: (2 months) Ryerson Univ., Toronto, CA, June-July 2012.
15. Visiting Researcher: (4 days) Microsoft Research, Redmond, US, April 2009.
16. ERASMUS teaching visits: (1 week each) to Bogazici University, Turkey, 2011, 2012 & 2013.

1. Senior Member, ACM
2. Senior Member, IEEE
3. Member, ACM SIGSOFT
4. Member, IEEE Computer Society