Mojtaba Shahin

Mojtaba Shahin

I am a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to a U.S. Associate Professor) at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Supervision

PhD Students – Current

  1. Sana Asgari, LLMs for Software Engineering, 2026–Present, RMIT University, Australia (Co-supervised with Dr Golnoush Abaei)

  2. Benjamin Lvovsky, Resilient Privacy Infrastructure for Enterprise Security, 2025–Present, RMIT University, Australia (Co-supervised with Dr Golnoush Abaei)

  3. Wendi Zhu, Machine Learning for Testing: Detecting Visual Defects in Software User Interface, 2025–Present, RMIT University, Australia (Co-supervised with Dr Golnoush Abaei)

  4. Amila Rathnayake, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) Test Automation with Large Language Models (LLM), 2025–Present, RMIT University, Australia (Co-supervised with Dr Golnoush Abaei)

  5. Vo Van Thanh, Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Educational Technology Platforms, 2026–Present, RMIT University, Australia/Vietnam (Co-supervised with Prof Iqbal Gondal, Dr Sam Goundar, Dr Arthur Tang)

  6. Nirmani Galpothugodage Dona, Recommending Crowdsourced Software Engineering Tasks Based on Workers’ Motivation and Team Dynamics, 2023–Present, Deakin University, Australia (Co-supervised with Dr Hourieh Khalajzadeh, A/Prof. Xiao Liu)

PhD Students – Completed

  1. Maria Graetsch, Understanding Multidisciplinary Data-Intensive Software Teams, 2021–2026, Monash University, Australia (Co-supervised with Dr Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Prof. John Grundy, Prof. Rashina Hoda)

  2. Maysa Sinan, Support Security Control Management and Implementation in DevSecOps, 2023–2025, RMIT University, Australia (Co-supervised with Prof. Iqbal Gondal)

  3. Jean de Dieu Musengamana, Mining Architectural Information to Support Software Development, 2019–2025, Wuhan University, China (Co-supervised with Prof. Peng Liang)

  4. Rifat Shams, Operationalising Values in Mobile Applications: A Mixed-Methods Empirical Study on Agriculture Apps for Bangladeshi Female Farmers, 2020–2022, Monash University, Australia (Co-supervised with Prof. Jon Whittle, A/Prof. Gillian Christina Oliver, Dr Waqar Hussain)

  5. Arif Nurwidyantoro, On the Presence of Human Values in Software Development Artefacts: An Evaluation of GitHub’s Issue, 2020–2022, Monash University, Australia (Co-supervised with Prof. Jon Whittle, Prof. Michel R. V. Chaudron, Dr Waqar Hussain)

  6. Muhammad Waseem, Microservices Architectures in DevOps, 2018–2022, Wuhan University, China (Co-supervised with Prof. Peng Liang)