Professor Stephen MacDonell

Professor Stephen MacDonell. Photo: VUW

Stephen MacDonell is an Ahorangi, Professor, in Engineering and Computer Science, and Co-Director of Te Whiri Kawe—Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDSAI), at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Stephen is a researcher in behavioural software engineering, meaning that he is particularly interested in understanding how software teams work. Most recently his research has been focused on software analytics and their visualisation, and how these enable improved decision-making regarding practice selection, work planning, forecasting and management. He is also committed to the use of more reliable evidence to underpin software engineering activities, and developing new ways to capture, model, apply, evaluate and interpret software-related data.  

Stephen is a Fellow of IT Professionals NZ, Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, and Member of the ACM. Until recently Stephen was also Deputy Director, and Theme Leader for Data Science & Digital Technologies, in New Zealand’s National Science Challenge Science for Technological Innovation, Technical Advisor to the Office of the Federation of Māori Authorities Pou Whakatāmore Hangarau - Chief Advisor Innovation & Research, and he was a co-founder of Software Innovation New Zealand (SI^NZ). Stephen is MBIE's Horizon Europe Pillar II National Contact Point for Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society.

For more information see Professor MacDonell's VUW webpage.