His research expertise include: software engineering (in general), software testing and quality assurance, software maintenance and model-driven development. He has been involved as an organizing or program committee member in many software engineering conferences such as ICST, ICSP, CSEE&T, and MoDELS. He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, and is also a licensed professional engineer (PEng) in the Canadian province of Alberta. He has been recently selected a Distinguished Visitor (speaker) for the IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) for the period of 2012-2015. Among his awards is the Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award in June 2007. For more information, visit: www.ucalgary.ca/~vgarousi