Rami Bahsoon is Lecturer in Computer Sc and the Computer Sc PhD Tutor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sc, a RAE 5 rated school of Aston University Birmingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Computer Sc, Software Engineering from the Dept. of Computer Sc, University College London (UCL), University of London. During his PhD, he was a member of the Software Systems Engineering Group, of London Software Systems, a joint Software Engineering Institute of University College and Imperial College London. His PhD is on the evaluation of software architectures for stability and evolution using real options theory where he worked with Prof Wolfgang Emmerich(first supervisor) and Prof Anthony Finkelstein(second supervisor). Dr Bahsoon holds MBA level certificates with high merit standing in management, technology strategy, and new communications industry from London Business School (LBS), University of London. He also holds an MS and BS in Computer Sc with a focus on Software Engineering from the Lebanese American University, Beirut. Dr Bahsoon is research active in Software Engineering with a special interest in economics-driven software engineering, relation between non-functional requirements and software architectures, metrics, software maintenance and evolution (requirements evolution, architectural stability, software mining, software testing and regression testing), and empirical evaluation. He has published articles in international scientific journals and conferences including the Journal of Systems and Software, the Journal of Information and Software Technology; and the IEE Software Proceedings, International Conference on Software Maintenance and a number of peer-reviewed workshops affiliated with the International Conference on Software Engineering. He is acting a program co-chair for the 2nd IEEE International Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures, In conjunction with IEEE IRI 2007; The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Stability at Work (SSW 07); and the First OOPSLA 2007 International Workshop on Unified Data Mining Engine, all chaired by Prof M. Fayad. His scholarly services have included program committee memberships to International Conferences on Software Engineering including Search-Based Software Engineering, a special track of GECCO 2007; Software Engineering Education and Training; the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances; OOPSLA 2007 workshop on Pattern Languages among the others. Dr Bahsoon is a regular reviewer for premier software engineering venues including the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Software, IEE Proceedings Software, and external reviews for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Foundations on Software Engineering (FSE), and Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE). Dr Bahsoon is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Requirements Engineering Specialist group, of the British Computer Society.
