Suad Alagić holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been a Computer Science Professor at multiple universities for many years. His research areas are Object-Oriented Systems, Database Systems, and Programming Languages and Systems. Suad Alagić previously published three books with Springer. His first book on assertions was translated into Japanese, Russian and Polish. Suad Alagić is the lead author of numerous papers, object-oriented in particular, that were published in the proceedings of highly visible conferences and in prestigious journals. He has had research grants from NSF and DOD and was an invited staff member of ODMG. Suad Alagić held visiting research positions at Microsoft Research and University of Tokyo. His extensive teaching experience includes a variety of object-oriented courses.