Dr Xiwei Xu is a senior research scientist within Data61’s Architecture & Analytics Platforms team, 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). Her research interests include software engineering, software architecture and business process. Her current research focus is software engineering for AI-based systems and blockchain-based applications. She is doing research mainly from software architecture perspective, for example, trade-off analysis, decision making and evaluation frameworks.