He received both the Ph.D. and MMath degrees from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His research interests include mining software engineering data, performance engineering, and distributed fault tolerant systems. Dr. Hassan spent the early part of his career (5 yrs) helping architect the Blackberry wireless platform at Research InMotion (RIM). He contributed to the development of protocols, simulation tools, and software to ensure the scalability and reliability of RIM’s global infrastructure. Dr. Hassan spearheaded the organization and creation of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) workshop series at ICSE and its associated research community. He recently co-edited a special issue of the IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE) on MSR. He is currently the chair of the steering committee for the MSR workshop.