Vahid Garousi

Vahid Garousi is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is also a practicing software engineering consultant and coach, and has provided consultancy and corporate training services in several countries in the areas of software testing and quality assurance, model-driven development, and software maintenance.

During his career, Dr. Garousi has been active in initiating a number of software testing and software engineering projects in Canada. Dr. Garousi completed his PhD in Software Engineering at Carleton University, Canada, in 2006. He has been involved as an organizing or program committee member in many software engineering conferences, such as ICST, ICSP, CSEE&T, and MoDELS.

He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, and is also a licensed professional engineer (PEng) in the Canadian province of Alberta. He has been selected a Distinguished Visitor (speaker) for the IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) for the period of 2012-2015. Among his awards is the Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award in June 2007. Since 2013, he has been a Visiting Professor at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey