Arif Ali Khan works as an Assistant Professor with the M3S Unit, Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems and Services, University of Oulu, Finland. Previously he worked as a faculty member with the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland; College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; and Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He received a BS degree in software engineering from the University of Science and Technology, Bannu, Pakistan and an MSc degree in information technology from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He obtained a PhD degree in software engineering from the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He has participated in and managed several empirical software engineering-related research projects. Khan has expertise in software process improvement, global software development, multi-criteria decision analysis, DevOps, microservices architecture, AI ethics, agile software development, requirements change management, soft computing, and evidence-based software engineering. He is professionally active in conducting publication-based research workshops, serving as guest editor in main track software engineering journals, and editing software engineering research books. He has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed software engineering conferences and journals.

Work
​ Experience
Assistant Professor (Jan 2022- Till date)
M3S Unit, Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems, and Services,
​Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
University of Oulu, Finland.

Senior Research Fellow (May 2021- Dec 2021)
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskya, Finland

Associate Professor (May 2018- May 2021)
College of Computer Science and Technology,
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Assistant Professor (Jan 2018- May 2018)
Department of Computer Science,
COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Teaching Assistant (PhD) (2014-2017)
City University of Hong Kong 
Courses
  • Internet Programming
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • GE(Global IT Case Studies)
  • Introduction to Computer Studies
  • Computer Programming

​Teaching Assistant (MSc) (Oct 2011- Nov 2013)
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia 
Courses
  • System Analysis and Design
  • Programming Fundamentals (C++/PASCAL)
  • Final Year Project 
Internee (Dec 2010-May 2011)
Core Systems Rawalpindi, Pakistan  
Junior Programmer 

Academics and Sports Achievements 
  • Recipient of the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Software.
  • Recipient of the outstanding research student award of the year 2016/2017 (City University of Hong Kong)
  • Recipient of the Hall 8 and JCH most active Student of the year award 2017/2018 (City University of Hong Kong)
  • Recipient of the Hall 8 and JCH most active Student Residence award 2016/2017 (City University of Hong Kong)
  • Recipient of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Award of Partial Support Program
  • Recipient of fully funded research scholarship for MSc studies at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia 
  • Recipient of fully funded research scholarship for PhD studies at City University of Hong Kong
  • Recipient of SIGAPP and ACM student Travel Award to attend SAC 2016 in Pisa, Italy 
  • Recipient of CityU travel grant for paper presentation in Barcelona, Spain
  • Winner of all UTP international squash tournament 2014