Mazen El-Masri is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the department of Accounting and Information Systems of the college of Business and Economics at Qatar University. He obtained his Ph.D. in MIS from HEC Montréal, Canada. He teaches data science (graduate), information security (graduate), introduction to MIS, and IT project Management. His work appears in IT & People, JISE, ACIS, ICIS, AMCIS, ECIS, PACIS, and ASAC. His research includes Text analytics, E-learning, Gamification, Predictive Modeling, IT Project Risk, Big-Data, Social Networks, and Semantics.