Mark Last is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems Engineering, BGU, where he heads The Data Mining and Software Quality Engineering Group. Prof. Last obtained his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and 10 books on data mining, text mining, and software engineering. Prof. Last currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics as well as Pattern Analysis and Applications. His main research interests are focused on data mining, cross-lingual text mining, and security informatics.
Yaron Tsubery has been working in the software industry since 1990, 
where he has had more than 20 years of experience in testing as a Test Engineer, Testing Team Leader, and Testing Manager. Prior to that, he worked as a Systems Analyst. Mr. Tsubery is currently the VP for Testing & Division Manager at Ness Technologies. Being Director of QA & Testing Manager at Comverse from 2000 until 2010, he was in charge of a large distributed group of Testing Team Leaders and Test Engineers which deals with Functional, Non-functional, Load & Performance tests, some of which are done off-shore, and has much experience in managing and controlling acceptance tests. Prior to becoming Director of QA & Testing, Mr. Tsubery worked in Product Management, Project Management and Development. He also has wide experience in banking business processes and, in the last 10 years, has implemented best testing practices in complex systems for telecommunication companies.
Mr. Tsubery is the current President of ISTQB® (International Software Testing Qualifications Board –www.istqb.org) and the President and founder of the ITCB (Israeli Testing Certification Board –www.itcb.org.il). He is a member of IQAMF (Israeli QA Managers Forum) and in SIGiST Israel. Yaron has been invited as a speaker to important international conferences as well as he wrote articles that were published in professional magazines.
