Farshad Ghassemi Toosi is a Lecturer in the department of Computer Science at the Munster Technological University (Cork, bishopstown Campus). Farshad received an MSc in Information Systems from Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi in 2009. He received his PhD degree from the department of Computer Science at University of Limerick in 2017. He joined LERO in 2013 as a PhD student. He then became a Post-Doctorate Researcher in 2017 until 2019.

His research interests include: Data Analytics (data visualization and graph drawing), Software Engineering (Feature Location and Source Code Manipulation) and Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning).