RODI JOLAK. Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum May 4, 2018

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1 RODI JOLAK Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum May 4, 2018 PERSONAL DATA First Name Rodi Last Name Jolak Date of Birth January 02, 1985 Place of Birth Aleppo (Syria) Nationality Syrian Marital Status Single Current Work PhD Candidate in Software Engineering Joint Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden Phone. +46(0) Mobile. +46(0) Skype: rodijolak Web: EDUCATION September 2017 October 2014 March 2010 Lic. Phil. in Software Engineering Joint Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden Dissertation title: Understanding Software Design for Creating Better Design Environments Supervisor: Prof. Michel R.V. Chaudron Co-supervisor: Prof. Morten Fjeld Co-Supervisor: Prof. Eric Knauss Examiner: Prof. Matthias Book M.Sc. in Engineering of Computing Systems Politecnico di Milano, Italy Final grade: 110 out of 110 Thesis title: Open Land Map: Visualization, Validation and Crowd-sourcing of Land Coverage Data Sets Course language: English Supervisor: Prof. Maria Brovelli B.Sc. in Computer Engineering Politecnico di Milano, Italy Final grade: 84 out of 110 Thesis title: Internet of Services and Things Course language: Italian Supervisor: Pierluigi Plebani CV Rodi Jolak Page 1 of 5

2 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Goal 1. Understanding Software Design and Model-based Development Practices Goal 2. Supporting Realistic Software Design and Engineering Processes Context: Software design is considered an essential activity to analyze software requirements in order to produce a description of the software s internal structure that will serve as the basis for its construction. Models are a means to describe complex systems at several levels of abstraction and from a diversity of perspectives. Surprisingly, most of the current software design environments are not based on understanding of real needs of software designers in practice. Objective: As a first step towards supporting realistic software design processes, my research focused on understanding software design practices, as well as on proposing and assessing of a new generation of software design environments. Approach: To achieve the objective of this research, design science and empirical methods are employed. In particular, a new generation software design environment, called OctoUML is created. Furthermore, to understand whether there is a need to improve modeling tools, the modeling process is analyzed in order to reveal how much effort is given to designing (i.e. thinking about the design of software systems), and how much effort is given to drawing the model (i.e. tool interaction). Research Questions: R.Q.1 How can a software design environment integrating the power of both formal and informal tools be achieved? R.Q.2 How can modeling tools be improved to be easier to use and more productive? R.Q.3 What are the perceptions regarding the usability of the proposed conceptual solution, OctoUML? R.Q.4 Does tool-support for mixing informal and formal notation better support the software design process? R.Q.5 Could the employment of voice interaction modality within the software design environments enhance the efficiency of the software design process? R.Q.6 How can the design effort and drawing effort in software modeling be dissected? R.Q.6.1 How much of the modeling effort is spent on design R.Q.6.2 How much of the modeling effort is spent on drawing the design solution? Results: On the one hand, OctoUML is perceived a usable environment in terms of ease of use, efficiency and user satisfaction. Moreover, it seems that OctoUML supports the design process by bridging the gap between early-phase design process and later on documentation and formalization process. Further results show that OctoUML was not only enjoyed by the designers, but also enhanced the efficiency of the software design process. On the other hand, we proposed experiments to increase our understanding of the software design process. We elicit many issues that need to be considered in such experiments. Our initial findings suggest that the majority of the modeling effort is devoted on design thinking. However, the effort spent on using modeling tools should be reduced by investigating better modelingtool support. CV Rodi Jolak Page 2 of 5

3 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION Politecnico Di Milano Joint research on analyzing software design effort and modeling effort. Collaborators: Ph.D. Eric Umuhoza and Prof. Marco Brambilla. RWTH Aachen University Joint research on collaborative distributed software design. Collaborators: Ph.D. Andreas Wortmann and Prof. Bernhard Rumpe. TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS Software Engineering Project [P1 15/16, P3 15/16, P1 16/17, P3 16/17, P1 17/18] Model Driven Software Development [P2 16/17] Software Architecture [P1 17/18] Software Evolution [P1 17/18] PUBLICATIONS AND VISIBILITY Papers in Proceedings of International Workshops and Conferences W.1. Michel Chaudron and Rodi Jolak. A Vision on a New Generation of Software Design Environments C.1. Bilal Karasneh, Rodi Jolak and Michel Chaudron. Using Examples for Teaching Software Design. APSEC W.2. Rodi Jolak, Boban Vesin, Marcus Isaksson, and Michel Chaudron. Towards a New Generation of Software Design Environments: Supporting the Use of Informal and Formal Notations with OctoUM C.2. Rodi Jolak, Boban Vesin and Michel Chaudron. OctoUML: An Environment for Exploratory and Collaborative Software Design. ICSE C.3. Rodi Jolak, Boban Vesin and Michel Chaudron. Using Voice Commands for UML Modelling Support on Interactive Whiteboards: Insights and Experience C.4. Rodi Jolak, Eric Umuhoza, Truong Ho Quang, Michel Chaudron and Marco Brambilla. Dissecting Design Effort and Drawing Effort in UML Modeling. SEAA 2017 C.5. Michel Chaudron, Ana Fernandes-Saez, Regina Hebig, Truong Ho-Quang and Rodi Jolak. Diversity in UML Modeling Explained: Observations, Classifications and Theorization. SOF- SEM C.6. Rodi Jolak, Duy Le-Khan, Kaan Sener and Michel Chaudron. OctoBubbles: A Multi-View Interactive Environment for Concurrent Visualization and Synchronization of UML Models and Code. SANER Journals J.1. Rodi Jolak, Andreas Wortmann, Michel Chaudron and Bernard Rumpe. Does Distance Still Matter? The Effectiveness of Distributed Collaborative Software Design. Under revision at IEEE Software. Dissertations D.1. Rodi Jolak, Understanding Software Design for Creating Better Design Environments. Licentiate Dissertation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, CV Rodi Jolak Page 3 of 5

4 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Feb Mar 2015 Oct Mar 2014 Dec Oct 2011 Software Engineer at Par-Tec S.p.A Milan, Italy Software Engineer at Sensei S.r.l Milan, Italy Software Engineer at AlmavivA S.p.A Rome, Italy Consultant at Banca Intesa San Paolo (Milan, Italy) TECHNICAL SKILLS Software Design [UML, Papyrus, Visual paradigm, StarUML, Enterprise Architect] Programming Languages [C/C++, Java SE, Java EE (EJB, JPA, JSP, Servlet, Struts, MVC Spring, RESTful WS, Hibernate), SQL and Paython] Database Management Systems [MySQL and PostgreSQL] Analytical Tools [SPSS, NVivo, Microsoft Excel and Matlab] Version Management [TortoiseSVN and GIT] IDEs [Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ] PRINCIPAL COURSES COVERED DURING MY STUDIES B.Sc. [Math, Physics, Computer Science, Data Bases, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Fundamentals of Automation, Fundamentals of Electronics, Computer Architectures, Operating Systems, etc.] M.Sc. [Advanced Databases and Web Technologies, Advanced Software Engineering, Avanced Computer Architectures, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Perfomace Evaluation of Compute Systems, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Model Identification and Data Analysis, Model Identification and Adaptive Systems, Workgroup and Workflow Systems, Planning and Management of Software Projects, Foundations of Operations Research, Game Theory, GIS, Multimedia Interactive Applications for Web and Mobile Devices.] PhD [Research Ethics and Sustainable Development, Teaching, Learning and Evaluation, Human-Computer Interaction, Advanced Communication - Popular Presentations, Project management and leadership in professional organizations, Designing User Experiences, Model-Based Software Engineering and Certification, Learning Empirical Software Engineering Empirically] CV Rodi Jolak Page 4 of 5

5 LANGUAGE SKILLS Kurdish Arabic English Italian Swedish Mother Tongue Basic Knowledge CERTIFICATES 2013 World Class Software Developer - NASA 2011 Java SE 6 Programmer - Oracle CV Rodi Jolak Page 5 of 5

Dissecting Design Effort and Drawing Effort in UML Modeling

POLITECNICO DI MILANO Dissecting Design Effort and Drawing Effort in UML Modeling Rodi Jolak¹, Eric Umuhoza², Truong Ho-Quang¹, Michel Chaudron¹ and Marco Brambilla² ¹ Chalmers & University of Gothenburg