Miriam A. M. Capretz is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University, Canada. Before joining Western University, she was with the University of Aizu, Japan. She received her B.Sc. and M.E.Sc. degrees from UNICAMP, Brazil, and her Ph.D. from the University of Durham, UK. She has been working in the software engineering field for more than 35 years and has been involved in the organization of workshops and symposia and serving on program committees at international conferences. Her current research interests include machine learning, big data analytics, the IoT, blockchain, and cloud computing.