Short bio: I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston, where I direct the Software Engineering Research Group. I obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Oregon State University under the supervision of Alex Groce. I received an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University, another master in Computer Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Petroleum University of Technology in Iran. My academic ancestry tree starts with Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, and includes Poisson, Church, Kleene, and other luminaries. Prior to moving to the US, I taught at the University of Kashan, and Shiraz University