Shaukat Ali
Chief Research Scientist/Research ProfessorHead of Department
- Department
- Engineering Complex Software Systems
- Organisation
- Simula Research Laboratory
- Research Interests
- Verification and Validation Search-Based Software Engineering Autonomous Driving Cyber-Physical Systems Digital Twins Quantum Software Engineering

- shaukat@simula.no
Publications
2025
Journal Articles
A. Muqeet
QUIET: A Tool for Sampling-Based Quantum Noise Error Mitigation
IEEE Software
E. Mendiluze, S. Ali, T. Yue and P. Arcaini
Quantum circuit mutants: Empirical analysis and recommendations
Empirical Software Engineering
P. Valle, A. Arrieta, L. Han, S. Ali and T. Yue
Defining and generating multi-level and uncertainty-wise test oracles for cyber-physical systems
Software and Systems Modeling
J. M. Murillo, J. Garcia-Alonso, E. Moguel, J. Barzen, F. Leymann and S. Ali
Quantum Software Engineering: Roadmap and Challenges Ahead
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol
N. Oldfield
Faster and Better Quantum Software Testing through Specification Reduction and Projective Measurements
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A. Muqeet, H. Sartaj, A. Arrieta, S. Ali, P. Arcaini, M. Arratibel, J. M. Gjøby, N. R. Veeraragavan and J. Nygård
Assessing Quantum Extreme Learning Machines for Software Testing in Practice
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
H. Sartaj, S. Ali and J. M. Gjøby
REST API Testing in DevOps: A Study on an Evolving Healthcare IoT Application
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
H. Sartaj, S. Ali and J. M. Gjøby
MeDeT: Medical Device Digital Twins Creation with Few-shot Meta-learning
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
H. Sartaj, S. Ali and J. M. Gjøby
Uncertainty-Aware Environment Simulation of Medical Devices Digital Twins
Software and Systems Modeling
Proceedings, refereed
J. Wu, C. Lu, A. Arrieta, S. Ali and T. Peyrucain
Vision Language Model-based Testing of Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots
The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2025
G. Pontolillo
From Ideal to Noisy: Adapting Property-Based Testing for Real-World Noisy Quantum Computers
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
C. Lu, P. Valle, J. Wu, E. Isaku, H. Sartaj, A. Arrieta and S. Ali
Foundation Models for Software Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems: the Road Ahead
2030 Software Engineering - 2025
C. Lu, J. Wu, S. Ali and M. L. Olsen
Assessing the Uncertainty and Robustness of the Laptop Refurbishing Software
2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)
E. Isaku, C. Laaber, H. Sartaj, S. Ali, T. Schwitalla and J. Nygård
LLMs in the Heart of Differential Testing: A Case Study on a Medical Rule Engine
ICST 2025, 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
Technical reports
J. Wu, C. Lu, A. Arrieta and S. Ali
Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Critical Scenario Generation of Autonomous Vehicles
P. Valle, C. Lu, S. Ali and A. Arrieta
Evaluating Uncertainty and Quality of Visual Language Action-enabled Robots
Talks, invited
S. Ali, X. Wang, A. Muqeet and E. Mendiluze
AI for Quantum & Quantum for AI
Kongsberg Agenda
S. Ali and E. Mendiluze
Towards Real-World Quantum Computing Applications
Simula Research Laboratory
Miscellaneous
S. Ali and P. Arcaini
Quantum Software Engineering: Future Trends in Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
Conference proceedings
K. Nylænder, A. Arrieta, S. Ali and P. Arcaini
Search-based Generation of Waypoints for Triggering Self-Adaptations in Maritime Autonomous Vessels
GECCO '25: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
2024
Journal Articles
P. G. Larsen, S. Ali, R. Behrens, A. Cavalcanti, C. Â. G. Gomes, G. Li, P. De Meulenaere, M. L. Olsen, N. Passalis, T. Peyrucain, J. Tapia, A. Tefas and H. Zhang
Robotic safe adaptation in unprecedented situations: the RoboSAPIENS project
Research Directions: Cyber-Physical Systems
A. Muqeet, T. Yue, S. Ali and P. Arcaini
Mitigating Noise in Quantum Software Testing Using Machine Learning
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
C. Laaber, S. Ali, T. Schwitalla and J. F. Nygård
Testing Medical Rules Web Services in Practice
arXiv
Proceedings, refereed
A. Muqeet, S. Ali and P. Arcaini
Quantum Program Testing Through Commuting Pauli Strings on IBM's Quantum Computers
ASE '24: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
H. Sartaj, S. Ali and J. M. Gjøby
Digital Twins Environment Simulation for Testing Healthcare IoT Applications
IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
S. Ali
AI-Based Digital Twins: A Tale of Innovation in Norwegian Public Sectors
1st ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware)
S. Ali
Quantum Software Testing 101
ICSE-Companion '24: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings
Proceedings, non-refereed
S. Ali, P. Arcaini and R. Abreu
The 3rd International Workshop on Quantum Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (Q-SANER 2024)
The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
S. Ali, J. Kim, S. Park and J. Park
International Workshop on Quantum Algorithms, Optimization, and A.I (QAI2024)
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Talks, keynote
S. Ali
The Convergence of Quantum Computing, Software Testing, and Artificial Intelligence
JYU Quantum Electronics, Superconductivity, and Topology workshop
S. Ali
Quantum Computing, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence
IPSJ/SIGSE Software Engineering Symposium (SES2024)
S. Ali
Quantum Software Engineering
2030 Software Engineering
S. Ali
Search-based Software Engineering and Quantum Computing
Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering 2024
Talks, invited
S. Ali
Responsible Quantum Software Engineering
2nd Symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence
S. Ali
The Triad of Quantum Computing, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence
University of Southern Denmark
S. Ali
Future Trends and Technological Innovations of AI System Evaluation
Future Advanced Testing Technology Workshop
S. Ali
The Superposition of Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Nordic Quantum Life Science Round Table, Soria Moria, Oslo, Norway
S. Ali
Adaptive Security and Digital Twin technologies in strengthening tele-healthcare systems
International Alliance for Strengthening Cybersecurity and Privacy in Healthcare (CybAlliance)
S. Ali
Digital Twins for IT-OT-based Healthcare Welfare Services
NESIOT 1st Annual Conference on Secure IT-OT Integration for successful digitalization
S. Ali
Advanced Technologies for the Analysis of Cyber Physical Systems
Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
S. Ali
AI-Based Digital Twins: A Tale of Innovation in Norwegian Public Sectors
1st ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware)
S. Ali
Quantum software testing
TAROT Summer School 2024, Bergamo, Italy
S. Ali
Quantum Optimization and Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering
Kings College London, UK
Talks, contributed
S. Ali
AI Foundation Models for Cyber-Physical Systems Testing
Future Advanced Testing Technology Workshop
S. Ali
Norwegian Quantum Technology Landscape
The Quantum Technology Landscape: Catalyzing Regional Collaboration and Innovation
S. Ali
Foundation Models for Creating Cyber-Physical Systems Digital Twins
International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods
S. Ali
The Entanglement of Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering
INRIA Workshop, Paris, France
S. Ali
Empowering Testing of Oslo City's IoT-based Healthcare Services with Computational Intelligence
EEE WCCI2024 Workshop on Computational Intelligence Applications
S. Ali
Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence
NORA Annual Conference 2024
S. Ali
Quantum Software Testing 101
ICSE-Companion '24: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings