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André Alexandersen Hauge started as Assistant Head of Department, Dept. of Computer Science and Communication, Østfold University College; Aug 2025 appointment

André Alexandersen Hauge – Faculty of Computer Science, Engineering and Economics – Høgskolen i Østfold

Published Aug. 19, 2021 7:35 AM - Last modified Aug. 3, 2026 8:45 AM

Assistant Head of Department at the Department of Computer Science and Communication.

I started as Assistant Head of Department at the Department of Computer Science and Communication in August 2025. Prior to this, I held a part-time position as Associate Professor at Østfold University College, where I was co-responsible for a master's course in cybersecurity, while also working on my own startup. Previously, I spent many years as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) and as a consultant at COWI. I have served as project manager, technical lead, and main contributor in several research council- and EU-funded projects within the domains of transport, robotics, and Smart Cities, focusing on safety, cybersecurity, and risk management.

I hold a PhD from the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. In my PhD, I developed a method and a pattern language to support the development of safety-critical systems.

Associate Professor (part-time), Østfold University College (Aug 2022 - Jul 2025)

CEO, Eventwood (Jul 2021 - d.d.)

Research and Innovation Manager, Blender Collective, Norway (Jul 2021 - Jan 2022)

Senior research scientist, Institute for Energy Technology, Norway (Nov 2017- Jun 2021)

Senior advisor, COWI, Norway (May 2015 - Oct 2017)

Senior research scientist, Institute for Energy Technology, Norway (Jul 2005 - Apr 2015)

Lecturer, Østfold University College (aug 2004 - jun 2005)

System developer, Milanex AS (2000 - 2001)

Nettverk for Cybersikkerhet og Innovasjon

Network for Cybersecurity and Innovation

Information Systems and Software Engineering

Scientific articles and book chapters

Sarshar, Sizarta; Hauge, André A & Winther, Rune (2019). Towards Risk Informed BIM Models in Major Norwegian Transport Projects. In Beer, Michael & Zio, Enrico (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference(ESREL). 22 – 26 September 2019 Hannover, Germany. Research Publishing Services . ISSN 9789811127243. p. 1849–1855. doi: 10.3850

978-981-11-2724-3_0431-cd . Full text in Research Archive

Hauge, André A; Sivertsen, Terje & Gran, Bjørn Axel (2019). Evaluating Approaches Supporting Safety Argumentation for Inclusion in a Safety Assessment Framework for Efficient Transport. In Beer, Michael & Zio, Enrico (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference(ESREL). 22 – 26 September 2019 Hannover, Germany. Research Publishing Services . ISSN 9789811127243. p. 1544–1552. doi: 10.3850

978-981-11-2724-3_0734-cd . Full text in Research Archive

Karpati, Peter; Hauge, André A; Sivertsen, Terje & Gran, Bjørn Axel (2018). Evaluating models for the inclusion in a safety assessment framework for efficient transport. In Haugen, Stein; Barros, Anne; Gulijk, Coen van; Kongsvik, Trond & Vinnem, Jan Erik (Ed.), Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway. CRC Press . ISSN 9781351174657. p. 1447–1454. doi: 10.1201

9781351174664 . Full text in Research Archive Show summary This paper presents the experiences from applying SysML models as support for establishing the safety requirements specification of a new safety-related railway application. The new railway application is a software-based system for securing work areas, meaning it prevents railway traffic in areas along the track allocated to maintenance. The experiences are collected within the Safety Assessment Framework for Efficient Transport (SafeT) project managed by Bane NOR. Bane NOR is the government agency that owns, operates and develops the Norwegian railway infrastructure. The objective of the SafeT framework is to offer a systematic, reusable way for creating system wide conceptual design models and based on them, creating a common risk model, which in turn will facilitate safety assessment, establishing the requirements specification, and safety demonstration of the system under consideration. The paper introduces the SafeT project as context of the work and presents experiences on the application of SysML for the conceptual system design of the new securing work areas application. The paper also discusses whether SysML models fit the SafeT framework’s objectives.

This paper presents the experiences from applying SysML models as support for establishing the safety requirements specification of a new safety-related railway application. The new railway application is a software-based system for securing work areas, meaning it prevents railway traffic in areas along the track allocated to maintenance. The experiences are collected within the Safety Assessment Framework for Efficient Transport (SafeT) project managed by Bane NOR. Bane NOR is the government agency that owns, operates and develops the Norwegian railway infrastructure. The objective of the SafeT framework is to offer a systematic, reusable way for creating system wide conceptual design models and based on them, creating a common risk model, which in turn will facilitate safety assessment, establishing the requirements specification, and safety demonstration of the system under consideration. The paper introduces the SafeT project as context of the work and presents experiences on the application of SysML for the conceptual system design of the new securing work areas application. The paper also discusses whether SysML models fit the SafeT framework’s objectives.

Skogvang, Øystein; Opsahl, Reidun Kristine; Solibakke, Sindre; Karpati, Peter; Hauge, André A & Sivertsen, Terje [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2018). Evaluating approaches for hazard identification for the inclusion in a safety assessment framework for efficient transport. In Haugen, Stein; Barros, Anne; Gulijk, Coen van; Kongsvik, Trond & Vinnem, Jan Erik (Ed.), Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway. CRC Press . ISSN 9781351174657. p. 1503–1510. doi: 10.1201

9781351174664 . Full text in Research Archive Show summary This paper presents the experiences from applying hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) as support for establishing the safety requirements specification of a new safety-related railway application. The new railway application is a software based system for securing work areas, meaning it prevents railway traffic in areas along the track allocated to maintenance. The experiences are collected within the Safety Assessment Framework for Efficient Transport (SafeT) project managed by Bane NOR. Bane NOR is the government agency that owns, operates and develops the Norwegian railway infrastructure. The objective of the SafeT framework is to offer a systematic, reusable way for creating system wide conceptual design models and based on them, creating a common risk model, which in turn will facilitate safety assessment, establishing the requirements specification, and safety demonstration of the system under consideration. The experience collected on applying HAZOP is done through two workshops with different formats on the documentation. The objective was to collect guidance on how HAZOP can be supported in the SafeT framework.

This paper presents the experiences from applying hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) as support for establishing the safety requirements specification of a new safety-related railway application. The new railway application is a software based system for securing work areas, meaning it prevents railway traffic in areas along the track allocated to maintenance. The experiences are collected within the Safety Assessment Framework for Efficient Transport (SafeT) project managed by Bane NOR. Bane NOR is the government agency that owns, operates and develops the Norwegian railway infrastructure. The objective of the SafeT framework is to offer a systematic, reusable way for creating system wide conceptual design models and based on them, creating a common risk model, which in turn will facilitate safety assessment, establishing the requirements specification, and safety demonstration of the system under consideration. The experience collected on applying HAZOP is done through two workshops with different formats on the documentation. The objective was to collect guidance on how HAZOP can be supported in the SafeT framework.

Karpati, Peter; Hauge, André A; Katta, Vikash & Raspotnig, Christian (2015). Safety demonstration challenges and recommendations in the nuclear field. In Podofillini, Luca; Sudret, Bruno; Stojadinovic, Bozidar; Zio, Enrico & Kröder, Wolfgang (Ed.), Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems. CRC Press . ISSN 9781138028791. p. 3791–3791. Full text in Research Archive Show summary Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems contains the Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015, held 7-10 September 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland. It includes about 570 papers accepted for presentation at the conference. These contributions focus on theories and methods in the area of risk, safety and reliability, and their applications to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors.

The main goal of this book is to showcase the advancements in understanding, modeling and management of complex engineered systems. The book offers a multidisciplinary platform to address technological, societal and financial aspects of system safety and reliability. Emphasis is given to the intra- and interdependencies of functions and the cascading failures that characterize complex engineered systems.

Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems (abstracts book 730 pages + full paper CD-ROM 4634 pages) will be of interest to academics and professionals involved or interested in aspect of risk, safety and reliability in various engineering areas.

Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems contains the Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015, held 7-10 September 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland. It includes about 570 papers accepted for presentation at the conference. These contributions focus on theories and methods in the area of risk, safety and reliability, and their applications to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors.

The main goal of this book is to showcase the advancements in understanding, modeling and management of complex engineered systems. The book offers a multidisciplinary platform to address technological, societal and financial aspects of system safety and reliability. Emphasis is given to the intra- and interdependencies of functions and the cascading failures that characterize complex engineered systems.

Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems (abstracts book 730 pages + full paper CD-ROM 4634 pages) will be of interest to academics and professionals involved or interested in aspect of risk, safety and reliability in various engineering areas.

Hauge, André A & Stølen, Ketil (2014). An analytic evaluation of the SaCS pattern language for conceptualisation of safety critical systems. International Journal On Advances in Software. 7(3

4), p. 653–674. Full text in Research Archive Show summary In this paper, we present the Safe Control Systems (SaCS) pattern language for the development of conceptual safety designs and conduct an analytical evaluation of the appropriateness of the language for its intended task. By a conceptual safety design we mean an early stage specification of system requirements, system design, and safety case for a safety critical system. The SaCS pattern language can express basic patterns on different aspects of relevance for conceptual safety designs. SaCS can also be used to combine basic patterns into composite patterns. A composite