Massood Towhidnejad is a tenure full professor of software engineering and chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has been involved in research activities in the areas of software engineering, software quality assurance and testing, autonomous systems, and human factors. He has collaborated with NASA, NOAA, FAA, VERITAS Corp., Motorola Corp., Carrier Corp., and Lockheed Martin. He secured about nine million dollar funding as PI and over nine million dollar as Co-PI. He published over eighty technical reports, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. In addition to his university position, he served as the President of MAK Group Software Consulting and Assessment company. Previously he served as Visiting Researcher at Federal Aviation Administration, Faculty Fellow at NASA Goddard Flight Research Center, and Software Quality Assurance Manager at Carrier Corporations. He has contributed as an author for Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSwERC), Software Engineering Competency Model (SWECOM), Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) training material, Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE), Graduate Reference Curriculum for System Engineering (GRCSE). He is an ABET program evaluator for Computing Accreditation Commission. He is a senior member of IEEE, and member of the IEEE professional activity board software and system sub-committee.During his tenure at the university, he has served in a number of leadership positions in the department, college, and university, including chair of Computer & Software Engineering department, and director of NextGeneration ERAU Applied Research (NEAR) lab.Specialties: Software Quality Assurance & TestingSoftware Process ImprovementSoftware RequirementSoftware Engineering Education and TrainingUnmanned Autonomous System