Masa Suzuki is currently Director of Test Development at Pearson. He has over 10 years of experience in developing, validating, researching, and managing large-scale, high-stakes automated language tests in collaboration with partners including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. Department of Defense, and Peking University. He holds an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from San Francisco State University and frequently presents at international conferences such as Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement, Language Assessment Quarterly, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, and IEEE Professional Transactions.