Thamir M. Qadah is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. He received his Ph.D. from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is an alumnus of the superb Exploratory Systems Lab. His research interests are in the design and implementation of secure, dependable, and high-performance software systems that exploit modern hardware. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Software Systems), an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, Cal. State Fullerton, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, respectively. He also holds a post graduate certification in Teaching and Learning in Engineering from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. He has co-authored several publications in top-tier database and systems research venues, and his research was recognized by the Best Paper Award in Middleware'18. Since 2015, he has been active in the research community as an external reviewer for top-tier conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, ICDCS, ATC, EDBT, Middleware, and CIKM. Moreover, he served as a committee member of the artifact evaluation committee for SOSP'19 and ASPLOS'20.