Akond Rahman is an assistant professor at Tennessee Tech University. His research interests include DevOps and Secure Software Development. He graduated with a PhD from North Carolina State University, an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Connecticut, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He won the Microsoft Open Source Challenge Award in 2016, the ACM SIGSOFT Doctoral Symposium Award at ICSE in 2018, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE in 2019, the CSC Distinguished Dissertation Award, and the COE Distinguished Dissertation Award from NC State in 2020. He actively collaborates with industry practitioners from IBM, Siemens, and others. To know more about his work visit https://akondrahman.github.io/