Nuno Roma received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST and he is a Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the High Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) research area of Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores R&D (INESC-ID) - a not for profit R&D institute affiliated with IST. His research interests include computer architectures, specialized and dedicated structures for digital signal processing, energy-aware computing, parallel processing and high-performance computing systems. He contributed to more than 120 manuscripts to journals and international conferences and served as a Guest Editor of Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (JRTIP) and of EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems (JES). He has also acted as the organizing chair of several workshops and special sessions. He has a consolidated experience on funded research projects leadership and he is member of several research Networks of Excellence (NoE), including HiPEAC (European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation). Dr. Roma is a Senior Member of both IEEE and ACM.