Thamir M. Qadah is currently an Asistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He was a member of the ExpoLab research group and is co-advised by Prof. Mohammad Sadoghi and Prof. Arif Ghafoor. His research interests are in designing and implementing 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 has co-authored several publications in top-tier database and systems research venues, and his research is recognized by the Best Paper Award in Middleware'18.