Parisa Heidari received the master's and PhD degrees in computer engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Her experience includes working as a software engineer at IBM and as research associate with Concordia University in collaboration with Ericsson from 2013-2014. In 2015, she joined Ericsson in Montreal as a postdoctoral fellow and in 2017 as a software developer.

She is working as Adjunct Research Professor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University.  Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, edge computing, cloud next generation, container technologies and server-less approach, smart resource dimensioning, optimal placement, and different aspects of QoS assurance in cloud systems. She holds to her credit several publications and patents.