Mahshid Helali Moghadam holds a PhD degree in computer science from Mälardalen university. Her PhD research entitled “Intelligence-Driven Software Performance Assurance” focused on the intersection of applied machine learning and software engineering with a focus on software performance assurance. Her research interests comprise industry-centric data science, intelligent software engineering, and software engineering for intelligent systems. Her research directions are based on the use of machine learning and computational intelligence techniques to build autonomous software agents for robustness testing of AI and non-AI software systems, runtime software performance control, fault diagnosis, and performance anomaly detection. She has been working in various European research projects and was a researcher and project lead at the Smart Industrial Automation unit at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She is currently a data scientist and technical project lead at Scania R&D in Sweden.