Rifat Ara Shams
Rifat completed her PhD studies on ‘Operationalising Human Values in Mobile Applications: A Mixed-Methods Empirical Study with Agriculture Apps for Bangladeshi Female Farmers”. This was a project between Monash University and Oxfam Bangladesh under the PROTIC scholarship.
Rifat has five years’ teaching experience from two universities in Bangladesh and was awarded the prestigious Women in Technology 2021 award from Zonta club of Melbourne and Lockheed Martin. She is also the Ambassador of STEM Sisters and a two-time runner-up in the esteemed Monash FIT 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) 2021 and 2020.
Her academic activities include working as a Program Committee member in ICSEA 2021 and Shadow PC Member in MSR 2021 and ACM COMPASS 2021. She was also a reviewer in the IEEE Software: Special Issues on Digital Twins 2021 and the workshop on HCSE&CS, co-hosted by ASE 2021.
With several papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, Rifat’s research interests span software engineering, human values, human values in software engineering, human and social factors in software engineering, empirical software engineering, AI, values and ethics in AI, responsible AI and mixed-methods research.
Read more about Rifat's PhD project.