# Contact

Director
Dr. Masoud Sadjadi Director Phone: 305-348-1835 Email: sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu Office: ECS 212 E Biography Dr. Sadjadi holds a B.S. degree in Hardware Engineering, an M.S. degree in Software Engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, where he has been on the faculty since 2004. He serves as the Director of the VIP project at FIU, the Director of the Professional Master in Science for Information Technology at FIU, and is in charge of Computer Science Senior Projects. He has extensive experience in software development and leading large-scale software engineering projects both in industry and in academia. During the past three years, Dr. Sadjadi has successfully transformed senior projects at FIU from a traditional waterfall approach to an agile/scrum approach. Dr. Sadjadis research is focused on Agile Software Development in Distributed Systems, Autonomic Computing, High-Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Pervasive Systems, and Mobile Computing. He is the Director of the Autonomic Cloud Research Laboratory (ACRL) at FIU and leads several projects under the Latin American Grid initiative. Currently, he is collaborating with top researchers in 8 countries and is leading several international collaborative research projects. He has served as the General Chair of, Program Chair, Co-Chair, and Committee Member of several top-tier international conferences and workshops of his field. He has served as a referee for several IEEE and SP&E journals and as a referee and panelist for several funding agencies including National Science Foundation (NSF), Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), and Florida Sea Grant. He has more than 80-refereed publications and is PI or Co-PI of 17 grants from NSF, IBM, Kaseya, TeraGrid, and FIU for a total of about $6 million. Dr. Sadjadi was previously the Director of the Center of Partnership for International Research & Education (PIRE) funded by the National Science Foundation for $2.3 million. He is a member of the IEEE and can be reached at sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu and http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi/.
Coordinator
Dr. Francisco Ortega Coordinator Phone: 305-348-2744 Email: fortega@cis.fiu.edu Office: ECS 263 Biography Dr. Ortega received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida International University. He is currently working on research about multi-touch and other input technologies. He is a post-doc at Florida International University and is the coordinator for the VIP project at FIU.
Graduate Assistant
Mohsen Taheri Graduate Assistant Phone: 305-348-1835 Email: mtahe006@fiu.edu Office: ECS 212 Biography Mohsen Taheri has been a PhD student of Computer Science at Florida International University (FIU) since Fall 2014. He received the B.S. degree in computer engineering/software engineering in 2010, the M.S. degree in computer engineering/software engineering in 2014. Currently, he is working under the supervision of Prof. Masoud Sadjadi. The main focus of his research is on Software Engineering and Agile Software Development.