Researcher Profile

Associate Professor Haifeng Shen

Faculty of Law and Business, Peter Faber Business School

Areas of expertise: software engineering; human computer interaction; artificial intelligence; simulation and visualisation

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8221-981X

Phone: +61 2 9465 9366

Email: haifeng.shen@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU North Sydney Campus

Associate Professor Haifeng Shen is the Discipline Head of Information Technology in the Peter Faber Business School at Australian Catholic University (ACU) since 2019. He is also a visiting fellow at the EPICentre (The Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre) of the University of New South Wales. He had been a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Flinders University in Australia since 2009 and an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 2003 to 2009. Dr Shen leads the Human-centred Intelligent Learning and Software Technologies Research Lab (HilstLab) at ACU. He specialises in human-computer interaction, human-AI interaction, software engineering, and simulation and visualisation. His research is uniquely positioned at the intersection of human, AI, and software with an aim to develop and/or study applications that can solve real-world problems. He has published over 120 research papers at international conferences and journals, including flagship and top venues such as ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, and IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. His research has been supported by more than $2M research grants from various funding agencies, industries, and universities.

Select publications

• R. N. Rajapakse, M. Zahedi, M. A. Babar, H. Shen (2022). Challenges and solutions when adopting DevSecOps: A systematic review. Information and Software Technology 141 (106700).
• H. Zhang, R. Mao, H. Huang, Q. Dai, X. Zhou, H. Shen, G. Rong (2021). Processes, challenges and recommendations of grey literature review: An experience report. Information and Software Technology 137 (106607)
• H. Shen, K. Liao, Z. Liao, J. Doornberg, M. Qiao, A. van den Hengel, J. W. Verjans (2021). Human-AI Interactive and Continuous Sensemaking: A Case Study of Image Classification using Scribble Attention Maps. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Ex- tended Abstracts 290(1-8)
• T. Wyeld, P. Jiranantanagorn, H. Shen, K. Liao, T. Bednarz (2021). Understanding the Effects of Real-time Sentiment Analysis and Morale Visualisation in Backchannel Systems: A Case Study. International Journal of Human Computer Studies 145 (102524)
• L. Yang, H. Zhang, H. Shen, X. Huang, X. Zhou, G. Rong, D. Shao (2021). Quality Assessment in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Software Engineering Perspective. Information and Software Technology 130 (106397)
• B. Liu, H. Zhang, L. Yang, L. Dong, H. Shen, and K. Song (2020). An Experimental Evaluation of Imbalanced Learning and Time-Series Validation in the Context of CI/CD Prediction. Proc. Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 21-30.
• H. Shen, T. Bednarz, H. Nguyen, F. Feng, T. Wyeld, P. J. Hoek, E. H. S. Lo (2019). Information Visualisation Methods and Techniques: State-of-the-art and Future Directions. Journal of Industrial Information Integration 16:100102
• O. Tarkhaneh and H. Shen (2019). An adaptive differential evolution algorithm to optimal multi- level thresholding for MRI brain image segmentation. Expert Systems with Applications 138:112820
• S. Akraa, A.P. Pham-Tam, H. Shen, Y. Tang, B.Z. Tang, J. Li, and S. Walker (2018). A smartphone-based point-of-care quantitative urinalysis device for chronic kidney disease patients. Journal of Network and Computer Applications 115:59-69.
• J. Almalki and H. Shen (2018). SORCER: A Decentralised Continuous Integration Platform for Service-Oriented Software Systems. Proc. 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Com- puting (ICSOC) 458-464
• C. Gao, K. Jin, H. Shen and M.A. Babar (2017). Are you a Human or a Humanoid: Predictive User Modelling through Behavioural Analysis of Online Gameplay Data. Advanced Engineering Informatics 33:410-424.
• Y. Mao and H. Shen (2016). Web of Credit: Adaptive Personalised Trust Network Inference From Online Rating Data. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 3(4):176-189.
• M. Reilly, H. Shen, P. Calder, and H. Duh (2014). Towards a Collaborative Classroom through Shared Workspaces on Mobile Devices. Proc. 28th British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), 335-340.
• Y. Mao, H. Shen and C. Sun (2013). Online Silk Road: Nurturing Social Search through Knowledge Bartering. Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) 1193-1202.
• H. Shen and M. Reilly (2012). Personalized Multi-user View and Content Synchronization and Re- trieval in Real-time Mobile Social Software Applications. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 78(4):1185-1203.
• D. Sun, C. Sun, S. Xia, and H. Shen (2012). Creative conflict resolution in realtime collaborative editing. Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) 1411-1420.
• H. Shen and C. Sun (2011). Achieving Data Consistency by Contextualization in Collaborative Web-based Applications. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 10(4): Article 13.
• Y. Mao, H. Shen and C. Sun (2011). Looking for nonexistent information: a consumer-led in- teractive search approach. Proc. 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) 151-156.
• Y. Zheng, H. Shen and C. Sun (2010). Inspiring Innovative Design Integration by Collaborative Exploration of Boolean Operations. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 6(2): 243-250.
• Y. Mao, H. Shen and C. Sun (2010). Supporting Exploratory Information Seeking by Epistemology- based Social Search. Proc. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 353-356.
• H. Shen, S. Liu, S. Xia, and C. Sun (2008). Distributed Constraints Maintenance in Collabo- rative UML Modeling Environments. Proc. 23th IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 367-370.
• C. Sun, S. Xia, D. Sun, D. Chen, H. Shen, and W. Cai (2006). Transparent Adaptation of Single- user Applications for Multi-user Real-time Collaboration. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 13(4): 531-582.

Projects

• Developing a context-aware collaborative AI system to reduce cognitive load and workload for operators in a submarine control room using the CRUSE console simulator 2020 - 2021, $95,000, funded by the Intelligent Decision Superiority Research Network at Defence Science and Technology Group
• Context-Aware Analysis and Visualisation as a Service 2019 - 2020, $77,315, funded by the Joint and Operations Analysis Division at Defence Science and Technology Group
• Better Simulation Models and Visualisation for the Joint Domain 2018 - 2019, $33,451, funded by the Joint and Operations Analysis Division at Defence Science and Technology Group
• astkCARE smartphone application for the detection of fluoro-surfactants PFOA, 2016 - 2018, $12,697, funded by CRC CARE Pty Ltd, Australia
• Leveraging Off-the-shelf Desktop Applications for Collaborative Cloud Computing 2012 - 2014, $30,000, funded by Flinders University
• Collaborative Creation and Spontaneous Promotion of Health Information in Virtual Communities 2011 - 2016, $60,000, funded by Flinders University
• Collaborative Creation and Application of Interactive Digital Media over the Internet 2007 - 2010, $515,840, funded by ASTAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research), Singapore
• Automating Integration of Manufacturing and Service Systems for trusted Collaborative Enterprises 2006 - 2009, $775,016, funded by ASTAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research), Singapore
• Operational Transparent Virtual Grid Community over Service-Oriented Grid 2005 - 2008, $222,845, funded by ASTAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research), Singapore
• Visualizing Virtual Memory in WRK (Windows Research Toolkit) 2008 - 2009, $22,000, funded by Microsoft Research Asia

Appointments and affiliations

• Associate Professor of Information Technology, Peter Faber Business School, ACU, 2019 -
• Visiting fellow at the EPICentre (The Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre) of the University of New South Wales, 2021 -
• Adjunct professor at the DevOps+ Research Laboratory of Nanjing University, China, 2019 -
• Adjunct academic in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University, 2019 -

Editorial roles

• Editor of the Proceedings of the 23th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2019
• Editor of the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, 2019
• Editor of the Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Software Engineering Conference , 2018
• Editor of the Proceedings of the 28th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2016
• Editor of the Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference , 2015
• Editor of the Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, 2014
• Editor of the Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2013

International journal review panel

• Information and Software Technology Journal
• Future Generation Computer Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
• Software: Practice and Experience
• Expert Systems With Applications
• Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
• ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Computers