Masoud Sadjadi received the B.S. degree in hardware engineering in 1995, the M.S. degree in software engineering in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Michigan State University in 2004. Dr. Sadjadi 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 is the Co-Director of the Autonomic Computing Research Laboratory, the leader of several projects under the Latin American Grid, the PI of FIU Partnership for International Research and Education, a Co-PI of the Global CyberBridges, and Co-PI of a component of the NSF CREST: Center for Innovative Systems Engine