Nana Assyne is a lecturer of Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, School of Technology – GIMPA. He is also a software startup coach. He holds PhD in Information Technology (Computer Science) from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland; a Master of Science in Information Technology (Software Engineering) from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland; a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Information Technology from Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland. Also, Nana holds a Professional Certificate in Pedagogical Studies in Vocational Teacher Education from Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland.

Prior to working at GIMPA, Nana worked with Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences – Finland as a student/teacher assistant, Program Coordinator – Professional Mentorship Program for Foreigner, Think Africa-ry – Finland, Nsense Oy – Finland as a software developer, CEO, and lead Developer for BanzyTek – Finland, L&T Oy – Finland & RTK Oy – Finland as a supervisor and Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly – Ghana as head of MIS Unit. Nana has over 10 years of teaching experience in software engineering courses at the university level, professional level development, and supervising thesis including supervising thesis at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences – Finland.

His area of research is on software engineering with a specific interest in software engineer’s competencies and software startup engineering, software security, and AI. He is a member of the Software Startups Global Research Network (https://softwarestartup.org).

• Software Engineering
• Software Startup Engineering
• Software Competencies Management
• Software Security and AI

• Software Engineering
• Software Startup Engineering
• Software Development
• Software Competencies Management
• Software Security and AI

• 2023: the University of Ghana Speech Data Project – To generate parallel datasets of transcribed audio data and parallel text for Neural Machine Translation in five Ghanaian languages (Akan, Ewe, Ikposo, Dagaare and Dagbani)
• 2023-2026: Simio Academic Edition (Simio LLC) software grant, worth $480000 (USD) to support teaching and research in simulation.

• Technical Research Best Paper in the 2020 Software Quality Days Conference
• 2011 Imagine Cup – Semi-finalist Software Design Category, Finland

Master’s Level Course, GIMPA School of Technology, GIMPA, Accra, Ghana

• SOT711B: Data Warehousing
• ICT708A: Software Engineering
• SOT705B: System Analysis & Design
• SOT707B: Database & Programming Concepts
• SOT719A: E-Business
• BUS715B: Information Systems

Bachelor’s Level Course, GIMPA School of Technology, GIMPA, Accra, Ghana

• CSC201A: Database Systems
• CSC306A: Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms
• ICT401A: Data Warehousing & Mining

Peer reviewed journal articles

• Assyne, N., Ghanbari, H., & Pulkkinen, M. (2022). The essential competencies of software professionals: A unified competence framework. Information and Software Technology, 151, 107020.
• Assyne, N., Ghanbari, H., & Pulkkinen, M. (2021). The state of research on software engineering competencies: A systematic mapping study. Journal of Systems and Software, 185(111183), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.111183
• Wiafe, F. N. Koranteng, E. N. Obeng, N. Assyne, A. Wiafe and S. R. Gulliver, “Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity: A Systematic Mapping of Literature,” in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 146598-146612, 2020, doi: 0.1109/ACCESS.2020.3013145.
• Assyne, N. (2021). Determining the Essential Competencies of Software Professionals: A Unified Framework. JYU dissertations.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

• Assyne N., (2020) Soft competencies and satisfaction levels for software engineers: A Unified framework – 12th International Conference, SWQD 2020, Vienna, Austria, January 14-17, 2020, Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) 2020
• Assyne N., (2019) Hard competencies and satisfaction levels for software developers: A Unified framework – 10th International Conference on Software Business (ICOSB) Jyväskylä, Finland, Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), 2019
• Assyne N. & Wiafe I., (2019) A Dynamic Software Startup Competency Model – 10th International Conference on Software Business (ICOSB) Jyväskylä, Finland, Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) 2019

Peer reviewed book chapter

• Assyne, N., (2020). Towards a Security Competence of Software Developers: A Literature Review. In W. Yaokumah, J.-D. Abdulai, I. Wiafe, & F. A. Katsriku (Eds.), Modern Theories and Practices for Cyber Ethics and Security Compliance (pp. 73–87). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3149-5.ch005

Peer reviewed conference papers

• Kemell, K. K., Elonen, A., Suoranta, M., Nguyen-Duc, A., Garbajosa, J., Chanin, R., Assyne N., … & Abrahamsson, P. (2020, August). Business model canvas should pay more attention to the software startup team. In 2020 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) (pp. 342-345). IEEE.
• Assyne N., (2019), Towards Competency Change Framework for Software Engineers 2019 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) – Kallithea, Chalkidiki Greece
• Assyne, N. & Adjei, J., (2017) MVP Trust Model: The role of Trust in Software Startup Ecosystem. 2017 43rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) – Vienna, Austria
• Assyne, N., (2017). Collaborative-Startup (Co-Startup) The role of Communities of Practices. In 2017 International Workshop on Software Engineering for Startup -(39th ICSE) Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Wiafe, I., Addo, D., Assyne, N. & Wiafe, A., (2016) Assessing the Relationship between User Perception and Use of ERPs in Higher Education Institutions in Ghana. In 2016 Applied Informatics & Technology Innovation Conference (AITIC). Newcastle, Australia
• Assyne, N., Ackaah-Kwarteng K, Wiafe A, “The challenges in making national identification systems accessible to institutions and the ordinary user: The Case for developing countries” 3rd Workshop on Information Technology and Systems 2014, Accra-Ghana
• Assyne, N., & Riungu-Kalliosaari, L. (2014). A framework for implementing cloud computing for record sharing and accessing in the Ghanaian healthcare sector. In 2014 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2014 (pp. 1–7). Le Meridien Ile Maurice: IEEE. http://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880609

ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0469-6642

Office : UN-Block, Room 25

E-mail: nassyne@gimpa.edu.gh