Helena Holmström Olsson is a Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malmö University, Sweden. She is a senior researcher and theme leader in Software Center (https://www.software-center.se) and in Continuous Digitalization (CoDig) Competence Center where the focus is to is to significantly improve the digitalization capability of the European software-intensive systems industry. She received her Ph.D. in Informatics from University of Gothenburg in 2004 and did her Post doc in LERO (‘The Irish Software Research Center’) at University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests and expertise include engineering aspects of AI systems, data-driven development practices, digitalization and digital transformation, and software and business ecosystems. She is the supervisor of several PhD students in the area of data-driven development and AI engineering, focusing in particular on the business and organizational implications of AI deployment, and she has a well-established collaboration with the European software-intensive embedded systems industry.
Her research is published in high-quality software engineering journals and she is a board member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA).