Dr. Oleksiy Mazhelis received his PhD degree in 2007 from the University of Jyväskylä. He has been working in multiple industry-led research projects as a PhD candidate and post-doctoral researcher. His research interests encompass techno-economics, systems analysis, machine learning, and pattern recognition, applied to the domains of software industry evolution, internet-of-things, telecommunications and cloud software, as well as intelligent transportation systems. His latest research concentrates on the areas of software industry evolution and techno-economic analysis, as applied to the fields of cloud computing and Internet of Things. Dr. Mazhelis has published dozens of conference papers and journal articles, including papers in the top journals in this research field, such as Information and Software Technology, Decision Support Systems, and Information Systems Frontiers.