Emad Aghayi is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. He is a member of the Developer Experience Design Lab, which studies how humans interact with code and designs new ways of building software. He works at the intersection of software engineering and human-computer interaction. His research goal is to make developers more productive by providing better development tools and approaches. To achieve this goal, his research involves understanding developer behaviors, identifying problems, and designing tools and approaches to help with those problems using various HCI methods at each stage. Specifically, he researches and designs on the crowdsourcing in software engineering. He received a BS degree in information technology from the Shiraz University of Technology in 2010 and an MS in information technology at the University of Tehran in 2014. He is highly skilled software development professional bringing more than 8 years in software design, development, integration and interacting with customers.