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

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

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

  4. Wafaa Alruwaili, An Empirical Study of Computational Thinking Education in Remote Primary Schools, 2022–Present, RMIT University, Australia (Co-supervised with A/Prof. Nalin Arachchilage)

  5. 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)