Mehrdad Saadatmand

Mehrdad Saadatmand is a Senior Researcher at the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Västerås. He holds a PhD degree in Software Engineering from Mälardalen University and his doctoral thesis is titled "Preservation of Extra-Functional Properties in Embedded Systems Development". Mehrdad is also leading the Software Testing Group at RISE Västerås. Mehrdad joined RISE SICS in 2015 as a senior researcher in software engineering. He has extensive experience of working in various collaborative research projects, particularly several large-scale EU ones. In these projects and collaborating closely with other experts from both industry and academia, he has been working on solving research challenges that are of high interest for Swedish and European industries, particularly in the domain of embedded & cyber-physical systems. Quick Links: LinkedIn ; Publications List ; Google Scholar Visiting address: RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Stora Gatan 36, SE-722 12, Västerås. Recent Projects:

• SmartDelta (ITEA): Automated Quality Assurance and Optimization in Incremental Industrial Software Systems Development (Dec 2021 – Nov 2024): 3-year international project consisting of 36 industrial and research partners from 9 different countries including canada (https://itea4.org/project/smartdelta.html / https://smartdelta.org/) . My role: coordinator of the international project, initiator of the project idea, project manager at RISE.
• XIVT (ITEA): Excellence In Variant Testing (Nov 2018 – Mar 2022); 3-year international project consisting of 22 industrial and research partners from Sweden, Germany, Canada, Portugal, and Turkey, doing industrial research on testing of highly configurable variant-intensive systems ( https://www.xivt.org/ ). My role: technical coordinator of the overall project, leader of work package on knowledge-based test optimization, project manager at RISE.
• AIDOaRt (ECSEL): AI-augmented automation for efficient DevOps, a model-based framework for continuous development At RunTime in cyber-physical systems (Apr 2021 – Mar 2024); 3-year international project consisting of 32 industrial and research partners from Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden (https://www.aidoart.eu). Swedish partners: Alstom, Mälardalen University, RISE, Volvo Construction Equipment, Westermo. My role: Project manager and technical lead at RISE.
• IVVES (ITEA): Industrial-grade Verification and Validation of Evolving Systems (Oct 2019 – Dec 2022) ; 3-year international project consisting of 26 industrial and research partners from Sweden, Canada, Spain, Finland, and Netherlands, doing industrial research on application of AI and Machine Learning in verification and validation of systems, and also verification and validation techniques for systems with AI and ML components (http://ivves.eu/) My role: Swedish consortium technical lead, leader of work package on data-driven engineering, project manager at RISE.
• Other Projects: MegaMart2 (ECSEL): MegaModelling at Runtime - an scalable model-based framework for continuous development and runtime validation of complex systems (https://megamart2-ecsel.eu/ ) (Apr 2017 - Mar 2020); TOCSYC (KKS): Testing of Critical System Characteristics (Sep 2013 – Aug 2018); TESTOMAT (ITEA): The Next Level of Test Automation (Oct 2017 – Sep 2020); ...