Dr. Abbas Heydarnoori is currently a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Iran. Before joining the SUT, in 2011, he worked as a Software Engineer at Xtreme Labs Inc. in Toronto, Canada. Before that, in 2010, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Dr. Heydarnoori finished his Ph.D. studies in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2009.