Prof. Rasha Kashef received her Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008. She is a professional engineer in Ontario. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo from 2011 until 2013. She also joined the Department of Management Science at the University of Waterloo from 2013 to 2016. She was hired as an assistant professor at the IVEY Business School in the Management science group with a focus on data analytics from 2016 to 2019. Currently, she is an assistant professor in Ryerson University's Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering Department. Her research interests span the use of machine learning in big data analysis in different applications, including healthcare, revenue management, and software engineering.