Mehrdad Saadatmand is a Senior Researcher at the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Västerås. He holds a PhD degree in Software Engineering from Mälardalen University and his doctoral thesis is titled “Preservation of Extra-Functional Properties in Embedded Systems Development”. Mehrdad is also leading the Software Testing Group at RISE Västerås. He has extensive experience of working in various collaborative research projects, particularly several large-scale EU ones.