Rashina Hoda is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia, where she researches the human and socio-technical aspects of software engineering (SE) and artificial intelligence. Rashina has been immersed in empirical qualitative research for two decades, practicing, supervising, reviewing, and editing qualitative SE research. She is an active member of the international SE research community, serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and on the organizing and program committees for top-rated international conferences as ICSE, CHASE, FSE, ICIS, and XP. She is a public speaker, presenting her research at Agile conferences, industry and public events, and in the media.