About: Dr. S. Masoud Sadjadi received his BS degree in Hardware Engineering from University of Tehran in 1995, the MS degree in Software Engineering from Azad University of Tehran in 1999, and the PhD degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2004. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. He is the Co-Director of the Autonomic Computing Research Laboratory (ACRL, http://acrl.cis.fiu.edu), the leader of several projects under the Latin American Grid (LA Grid, http://latinamericangrid.org), and one of the Co-Founders of the Global CyberBridges (GCB, http://cyberbridges.net). He is also affiliated with the Research and Education for Undergraduates (REU, http://www.cis.fiu.edu/reu) and the Communication Virtual Machine (CVM, http://www.cis.fiu.edu/cvm) projects at FIU. He has extensive experience in software development and leading large scale software projects. Currently, he is leading several international research projects in the Latin American Grid and is co-chair of the program committee for IEEE ICNSC 2008. His current research interests include Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and High-Performance Computing with the focus on Autonomic, Pervasive, and Grid Computing. He is PI or Co-PI of 8 grants from NSF and IBM for total of over $3.5 million. He is a member of the IEEE.