His research interests are in Mining Software Repositories, Software Maintenance, Software Quality Assurance, Empirical Software Engineering, and Software Architecture. Emad worked in the mobile software industry as a software researcher and a software quality assurance associate at Research In Motion in Waterloo, Ontario. He also worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. He held an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) and a Google GRAD CS Forum award. He served as program chair of the 2012 Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Challenge Track. More information can be found at http://www.se.rit.edu/~emad.