3 Authors

3.1 Xiwei Xu

Xiwei Xu is a senior research scientist within Data61’s Architecture & Analytics Platforms team and is based in Sydney. She is also a Conjoint Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She has been working on blockchain since 2015. She is doing research on blockchain from a software architecture perspective, for example, trade-off analysis, decision making, and evaluation frameworks. She published a book Architecture for Blockchain Application with 2 other co-authors in 2019. Based on the book, she designed and is teaching a blockchain course at UNSW. Her citations total over 4400 and her h-index is 26 (google scholar).

3.2 Ingo Weber

Ingo Weber is a Full Professor and Head of Chair for Software and Business Engineering at TU Berlin, Germany. In addition he is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University. Ingo has published over 100 refereed papers and three books, including “DevOps: A Software Architect’s Perspective,” Addison-Wesley, 2015, and “Architecture for Blockchain Applications,” Springer, 2019. Ingo has served as a reviewer for many prestigious journals, including various IEEE and ACM Transactions, and as PC member for WWW, BPM (also as PC co-chair), ICSOC, AAAI, ICAPS, IJCAI, and many other conferences and workshops. Prior to TU Berlin, Ingo worked at Data61, CSIRO (formerly NICTA), UNSW in Sydney, Australia, and at SAP Research in Germany. At CSIRO, the team under his leadership became one of the leading research groups on blockchain globally. While at SAP, he completed his PhD with the University of Karlsruhe (TH).

3.3 Mark Staples

Mark Staples is a senior principal researcher in CSIRO’s Data61, based in Sydney, and is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His research interests are in blockchain technology, regtech, software architecture, software engineering, and the philosophy of engineering. He has many years’ industrial experience in software and systems engineering management. He is a member of the steering committee for Australia’s national blockchain roadmap, on the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisor Board, and is active in ISO’s international standards on blockchain and distributed ledger technology (ISO/TC 307).