Maryam Razavian

Maryam Razavian is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems group within the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research focuses on understanding and guiding information system design processes from both business and technical perspectives.

Dr. Razavian received her PhD in Computer Science from VU University Amsterdam, where her dissertation focused on knowledge-driven migration to services funded by the NWO/Jacquard SAPIENSA project. She also holds an MSc from Tehran University and has worked as a Research Assistant at Politecnico de Torino.

Her research interests include information system design reasoning, human aspects of information system design, software architecture, service orientation, and increasingly focuses on ethical considerations in software systems. A common theme in her work is understanding how designers carry out design thinking as a key to developing models and approaches for guiding information system design.

Dr. Razavian's publication record demonstrates consistent contributions to software engineering and information systems research, with recent work focusing on ethical values in software systems, stakeholder inclusion, and the integration of rational and intuitive thinking in design processes. Her research examines how to incorporate ethical values into architecture design decision-making, including the development of the Ethics-Aware DecidArch Game to help software architects reflect on ethical considerations.

• Active member of program committees for major conferences including ICSE/SEIS (2015), WICSA (2015-2017), ER (2013-2014)
• Reviewer for journals such as Journal of Systems and Software and IEEE Software
• Teaches courses in research methods and design of AI systems at TU/e

Her work bridges the gap between technical design processes and their broader societal implications, positioning her at the forefront of research on ethics in software engineering.