Professor Pekka Abrahamsson
A leading software engineering expert and innovator at Tampere University.
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Academic Background
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Education
Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Oulu in 2002.
Adult education pedagogics, fully qualified educator, 2022 .
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Current Position
Professor of Software Engineering at Tampere University since 2023.
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Research Areas
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Empirical Software Engineering.
Academic Career
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2002-2009
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, from researcher to research professor.
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2009-2015
Professor at the University of Helsinki and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
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2015-2022
Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Jyväskylä.
Scientific Output
Publications
18 books, 51 scientific articles, and 161 international conference publications.
Citations
Over 18,100 citations in Google Scholar.
Impact
Top-1% of software engineering researchers of all time.
Awards and Recognition
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Academic Membership
Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2020.
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Conference Awards
22 keynote speeches and several best paper awards.
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Industry Recognition
Nokia Foundation Award 2007 and ITEA Achievement Award 2007.
Research Funding and Projects
Innovation in Education
GPT-Labs
A generative AI research lab at the University of Tampere.
Startuplab
A research and education space for software startups at the University of Jyväskylä.
Makerspace
A physical product development space for faculty and students at NTNU.
Recent Publications
AI Ethics: An Empirical Study on the Views of Practitioners and Lawmakers (2023)
Research on AI ethics from the perspective of practitioners and lawmakers.
Continuous Software Engineering Practices in AI/ML Development Past the Narrow Lens of MLOps (2024)
Analysis of continuous software development practices in AI and machine learning projects.
Making ethics practical: User stories as a way of implementing ethical consideration in Software Engineering (2024)
Incorporating ethical considerations into software development through user stories.