Mrwan Ben Idris is a graduate student and assistant in the software engineering program. Dr. Hany Ammar and Dale Dzielski are Mrwan's PhD co-advisers. His PhD research interests are in software engineering. His goal is to introduce a new methodology to assess the risk of the Architecture Technical Debt (ATD) to help the decision-makers prioritizing the refactoring decisions. Dr. Ammar and Dzielski advised Mrwan to perform a systematic mapping study and conduct multiple case studies to identify the Technical Debt research gaps and understand the interesting phenomena. The performed systematic mapping study was published in the International Journal of Software Engineering and Application, titled Investigate, Identify and Estimate The Technical Debt: A Systematic Mapping Study.