Salah Bouktif (Member, IEEE) received the degree in engineering and the master’s degree in industrial computing from the School of Computer Science, University of Tunis, Tunisia, and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in computer science from the University of Montreal, in 2015. He has been a Senior Software Engineer with Tunisian Railway Company (Known as SNCF), for three years. He is currently working as Full Professor with the College of Information Technology (CIT), United Arab Emirates University. Before joining CIT, in 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School of Engineering, Montreal. He has published many papers in highly ranked journals and conferences, such as IEEE ICSM, IEEE ASE, ACM GECCO, ACM/IEEE ASONAM, IEEE ICWS, Information and Software Technology (Elsevier), ACM Transactions on IMS, and PLOS One. His research interests include energy prediction, data mining, big data analytics, search-based software engineering, and software quality assurance.