Leonel Sousa is Professor ("Professor Catedrático") of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DEEC) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and a Researcher of INESC-ID. His research interests include high performance and parallel computing, micro-architectures for general purpose and specialized processors, and multimedia systems. Fellow of the IET-FIET (2013), Distinguished Scientist of ACM (2015), Senior Member of IEEE (2004), and IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor.