Self-Evaluation of Performance 2022–04 to 2023–09

Published 16 October 2023 by h0bb3

Use the following headings to self-evaluate your work performance for the revision period. Please reflect on your performance and be as honest as possible. Provide clear examples when possible and attach any additional documents, such as evaluations, that you think are relevant. Make sure to emphasize both your performance and what you have done to improve it. Replace with an integer, e.g., 20. Use the following scale to your performance: inadequate, adequate, satisfactory, good, very good, or excellent. Please submit this document at least 24 hours before your appraisal talk. Limit your answers to five pages at most.

1 Overall

My employment is 100% of full time. Please list your highest academic degrees (bachelor, master, doctorate) and when it was awarded. Indicate if you are a docent or professor (or have applied to be assessed as such).

PhD in Computer Science, 2022

1.1 My ability to achieve good, high-quality results is: very good

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Prioritize and limit work according to operational needs, Structure and organize my work, Carry out work as agreed.

  • I’m good at working with constraints and prioritize what is needed for the operational needs. For example: Manageing the master thesis courses for computer science and media technology with very low budget, involving management of several senior researchers.
  • I organize my work and think about potential reuse of materials. For example Reusing course materials developed for engineering student project courses, in other courses.

1.2 My ability to cooperate and contribute towards a good working environment is: exellent

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Contribute towards an open, permissive working climate, Treat colleagues and students with respect, Share knowledge and experiences with colleagues, Build and maintain relationships and networks, both within and beyond the department or equivalent

  • Joint continued development and running the OOP course. Together with colleagues from our other campus.
    • Joint continued development and running the Python course. Together with colleagues from our other campus.
  • Sharing knowledge regarding GitLab build pipelines, Gradle and contributing with working open source code to monitor quality of student submissions
  • Accepting thesis student projects when other people refuse to tutor “beyond” their competence.
  • Running many courses with distance, campus Kalmar and campus Växjö students.
  • HÖG22 application togetherw with colleagues from Karlstad University._

1.3 My ability to contribute towards operational development is: very good

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Contribute towards the development of working methods and knowledge environments, Deal with changes to circumstances, assignments, and work duties, Contribute towards the development of my unit, Contribute towards the development of university-wide issues

  • Being agile and flexible regarding tools and techniques for teaching and meeting students, for example custom lectures and seminars for online students and campus students seperately to increase engagement.
  • Traveling to our other campus to meet the campus students in person.
  • I’m happy to help and discuss with the colleagues in the IoT lab. For example as a reader for several papers.
  • Accepting thesis student projects when other people refuse to tutor “beyond” their competence.

2 Education

During the revision period, my involvement in education was ~85% (on average).

2.1 My ability to implement, develop and lead high-quality teaching is: excellent

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Structure and organize the subject’s knowledge area in courses and my teaching, Plan and carry out teaching, Supervise students/doctoral students

  • Online supervison/tutoring of students one-on-one using Slack.
  • Online tutoring of students in thesis work and industry projects both one-on-one and in group settings.
  • Running hybrid courses with the goal to get campus students back to campus after the pandemic.
  • Actually following the rules and regulations regarding examination.
  • Reading, and critically assessing student thesis work with the goal of improving quality.

2.2 My ability to create a commitment to and an interest in the subject is: excellent

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Motivate students to participate actively in courses/teaching, Motivate students to take a critical attitude, Motivate students to carry out their independent learning, Communicate with students/doctoral students.

  • Regular vlogs in OOA/D and meeting campus students at campus.
  • Very active on Slack for answering student questions and being generally supportive to struggling students.

2.3 My ability to carry out educational development work is: very good

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Participation in development within my subject area, Active participation in course development work, Ability to cooperate and a desire to share knowledge with colleagues, Participation in development work together with colleagues, Producing teaching materials

  • Continued improvement of Java OOP course, including automatic testing pipelines for student submissions.
  • New materials for OOA/D course developed in the face of coming back from the pandemic.
  • Automatically and Manually assessing ~150 student submissions within 15 working days of submission deadlines

2.4 Competency development

Describe how you used your competency development to improve your education or educational skills.

  • GitLab pipelines
  • Gradle (Java) build tool
  • Automatic (Java) code quality assessment using FindBugs
  • Automatic (Java) linting using CheckStyle

3 Research

During the revision period, my involvement in research was 5% (on average).

3.1 My ability to carry out high-quality research is: very good

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Achieve high-quality scientific results, Organize and lead research projects and research teams, Participate actively in advanced seminars, Initiate and develop collegial research cooperation, Apply for and obtain external research funding, Achieve national and international publication in high-ranking journals or similar

  • I have been involved in several research papers for both journals and conferences: Fuel Consumption Prediction Models Based on Machine Learning and Mathematical Methods, MapReduce Scheduling Algorithms in Hadoop : A Systematic Study, DeltaBin: An Efficient Binary Data Format for Low Power IoT Devices
  • HÖG22 Resarch Application

3.2 My involvement in the research community is: good

Motivate your assessment with examples, using the following criteria: Guest research, Invited talks, Involvement in program committees, journals, etc., Carry out commissions as an expert, a faculty opponent, or a member of a grading committee, Carry out commissions in external research organizations

  • Considering the time allocated for research the past year is practically zero
  • I act as a member on the Steering Committee of the SaEroCon Workshop
  • I publish and maintain an open source software to support the research community
  • Cooperation with Karlstad University in HÖG22 research application

3.3 Competency development

Describe how you used your competency development to do research.

  • Attending the Doctoral Supervision course.

4 Collaboration with society

4.1 My ability to produce information about research and to collaborate with the rest of society is: very good

Publish in popular science publications, Participate in public debate on issues relating to education and research, Participate in public education, Participate in initiatives to develop contact with industry, the public sector, and the cultural sector

  • Speaking at local developer gathering arranged by kalmar sciencepark
  • 3D printing lecture at Vxö sciencepark
  • Connecting with industry partners to conduct and tutor successfull projects with regional and national companies: Blika Solutions, Dizparc, Milou, Occdec, Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Softhouse Consulting AB.
  • Successfully found inustry collaboration partners to invest considerable time and resources in our HÖG22 research propsal: Forecasting architctural degradation: Sinch, Gears of Lea, FortNox

5 Services to the department, faculty, and university

During the revision period, my involvement in administration/other was 15 % (on average). List your engagements below and motivate why these should are important to consider when appraising your work performance.

*I took over the management of the Kalmar engineering students, started and finsihed a revision of the program contents. *Contributing to the Linnéingenjören theme *Open house at the IoT lab for the high-school students

6 Other information

Provide any additional information that you think is important to knowwhen appraising your work performance, such as extended sick leaves, parent leave, engagements that took significant time, etc. If you think that your salary is incorrect, for example, compared to your peers, please note that here and motivate why. Be as specific as possible.

In general I think I put a lot of effort and time into my work. During spring 2023 I took over the responsibility of several new courses. This generated 135h of sheduled overtime - while I’m happy to work hard for the benefit of the University I’m not happy to do so without due compensation. There also seems to be a gidlock in handling external funding - you should get external funding for research but you also need to make sure your “have the time” and no new employees means that there can basocally never be any serious research applications unless you are not teaching.

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