Requirements Engineering for Social Sector Software Applications : Innovating for a Diverse Set of User Needs

Varun Gupta received his Ph.D. & Master of Technology (By Research) in Computer Science & Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University and Bachelor of Technology (Hon’s) from Himachal Pradesh University respectively. He also holds an MBA (General) from Pondicherry University (A Central University). Dr. Varun Gupta worked as Postdoctoral Researcher with Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal till April 2021. He is also Visiting Scientist, School of Business, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. He was Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom (2018 to 2021). Dr. Gupta is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access (IEEE), SCIE Indexed with 4.098 impact factor; PEERJ Computer Science, SCIE Indexed with 3.09 impact factor, the International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology (Inderscience Publishers), Scopus indexed; IEEE Software Blog; and Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT) (IGI Global), Indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and SCOPUS; and a former Editorial Team Member of the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) (Wiley), SCIE Indexed with 2.729 impact factor. He had been a Guest Editor of many Special Issues published/ongoing with leading international journals and an Editor of many edited books to be published by IGI Global and Taylor & Francis (CRC Press). He has organized many special sessions with Scopus Indexed International Conferences worldwide, proceedings of which were published by Springer, IEEE, and Elsevier. He is serving as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. His area of interest is Evidence based Software Engineering, Evolutionary Software Engineering (focusing on Requirement management), Business Model Innovation and Innovation Management.