Personal Information Name: Xiaozhou Li, Ph.D. Email: lixiaozhou725@gmail.com Gender: Male Date of Birth: July 25, 1984 Nationality: Finland Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ubfvxGwAAAAJ Education Background Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tampere University (2014–2022) Thesis: Data-Driven Analysis towards Monitoring Software Evolution by Continuously Understanding Changes in Users’ Needs Supervisors: Dr. Zheying Zhang, Prof. Konstantinos Stefanidis M.Sc. in Internet and Game Studies, University of Tampere (2013–2017) Thesis: Motivation-oriented Scenario-based Gamification Design Method using the User Requirements Notation Modeling Supervisors: Prof. Juho Hamari, Dr. Jonna Koivisto M.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Tampere (2009–2013) Thesis: Research on Agile Process Models in Mobile Application Maintenance Supervisors: Dr. Zheying Zhang, Prof. Jyrki Nummenmaa Minor: Asian Studies in Business and Business Culture B.Sc. in Software Engineering, Northeastern University (China) (2003–2007) Thesis: Research and Design of Internet Grading System – Answer Sheet Information Processing Subsystem Supervisor: Prof. Bin Zhang Employment Research Fellow (RTDa) — Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Feb 2025–Present) Tasks: Research work, thesis supervision, funding application, teaching Postdoctoral Researcher — University of Oulu (Jan 2023–Jan 2025) Tasks: Research work, thesis supervision, funding application, teaching Postdoctoral Researcher — Tampere University (Apr 2022–Jun 2023) Tasks: Research work, thesis supervision, funding application, teaching assistance Doctoral Researcher — Tampere University (Oct 2020–Apr 2022) Tasks: Research work, thesis supervision, funding application, teaching assistance Researcher & Teaching Staff — University of Tampere (Jan 2017–Dec 2018) Tasks: Research, thesis supervision, exam supervision, and teaching assistance Project Manager — TAUCHI (Sep 2010–Feb 2011) Project: Input Device Testing Environment built on FPS Game Software Designer & Developer — Demola New Factory (May–Aug 2010) Project: Wearable Computing Software Designer & Developer — University of Tampere (Sep 2009–Feb 2010) Project: TAMBIC: Tampere Bi-lingual Corpus Skills Languages: Chinese (Native), English (C1), Finnish (B1), Japanese (N4) Coding: Python, C, C++, VB, SQL, PHP, Java, C# Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL Web Dev: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery Miscellaneous: Scrum & Kanban, Web Crawling, Data Science, Game & Gamification Design, MS Office, Photoshop, Generative AI & Prompt Engineering Awards and Certificates Awards 2019 — Best Paper, GamiFIN Conference 2015 — Best Paper, ICSEA Conference Certificates 2024 — Generative AI for Software Developers (IBM, Coursera) 2024 — Generative AI Fundamentals (IBM, Coursera) 2020 — Mathematics for Machine Learning (Imperial College London, Coursera) 2019 — IBM Data Science Professional Certificate (IBM, Coursera) 2019 — Introduction to TensorFlow for AI, ML, and DL (deeplearning.ai, Coursera) 2019 — Finnish National Certificate of Language Proficiency (Intermediate Level) Research Funding EU Horizon Funding Applications (2023–2024) Business Finland Application (2023) CNESS Research Funding (2022) Ulla Tuominen Funding (2020) Faculty Doctoral Student Funding (2017–2018) SKR Pirkanmaa Regional Funding (2018, 2020) Koneen Säätiö Funding (2017) Academy of Finland Funding (2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023) Community Service 2025 Web Chair. The 11th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC) PC member. The 33rd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) PC member. The 26th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES) 2024 PC member. The 18th International IEEE Conference On Service-Oriented System Engineering (IEEESOSE) PC member. The 32nd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) Track Co-Chair. The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) Workshop Co-Chair. The 1st Workshop on Edge Software Architecture (ESA) 2023 Proceeding Chair. The 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES) Proceeding Chair. The 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) Proceeding Chair. The 16th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) Web Chair & Volunteer. The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2021 Volunteer. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Teaching Activities 2025 Lecturer. Introduction to Programming (UG). Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Lecturer. Software Project Management (UG). Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. 2024 Lecturer. Databases (UG). University of Oulu/Nanjing Institute of Technology. Lecturer. Software Development, Maintenance and Operations (Grad). University of Oulu. 2023 Lecturer. Databases (UG). University of Oulu/Nanjing Institute of Technology. Lecturer. Software Development, Maintenance and Operations (Grad). University of Oulu. Teaching Assistant. Software Product and Process Management (Grad). Tampere University 2022 Teaching Assistant. Software Product and Process Management (Grad). Tampere University 2021 Teaching Assistant. Requirements Engineering (Grad). Tampere University. References Prof. Konstantinos Stefanidis — Tampere University, Finland 📧 konstantinos.stefanidis@tuni.fi | 📞 +358 504 174 121 Assoc. Prof. Andrea Janes — Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 📧 andrea.janes@unibz.it | 📞 +39 339 288 1689 Assoc. Prof. Tomas Cerny — University of Arizona, USA 📧 tcerny@arizona.edu | 📞 +1 520 621 2434 Publication List (Summary) Journals (13 items): Covering software architecture, microservices, AI in software engineering, OSS evaluation, and software quality (2020–2025). Conferences (38 items): Including IEEE, ACM, Springer, and Euromicro venues, spanning from 2014 to 2025. Theses (3): Ph.D. (2022), M.Sc. (2017), M.Sc. (2013) — all completed at Tampere University