Tushar Sharma is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He leads Software Maintenance and Analytics Research Team (SMART) lab focusing on software design and architecture, refactoring, code quality, technical debt, and machine learning for software engineering (ML4SE). He earned PhD from Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, specializing in software engineering. He obtained an MS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India. His professional experience includes working with Siemens Research, USA, for approximately two years and with Siemens Corporate Technology, India, for seven years. He co-authored Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt and two Oracle Java certification books. He founded and developed Designite, a software design quality assessment tool many practitioners and researchers use worldwide.