Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer is currently an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering department, in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 2016 from the University of Michigan. His research interests include software quality, systems refactoring, model-driven engineering and software testing. He is a member of the Search-based Software Engineering at Michigan research group, he is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. He has collaborations with industrial companies on the use computational search and evolutionary algorithms to address several software engineering problems such as software quality, software remodularization, software evolution, etc. He published several papers in software engineering journals and conferences, including one best paper award. He has served as a reviewer and program committee member in several major journals and conferences (GECCO, EMSE, JSME, etc.) and an organization member of many conferences and workshops (SSBSE, NasBASE, etc.). He was also the web chair of the first North American Search Based Software Engineering Symposium (Nasbase2015) and he is now in the steering committee of the IEEE Search-Based Software Engineering Symposium (SSBSE).