Oliver Sinnen is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering at the University of Auckland, where he founded and leads the Parallel and Reconfigurable Computing Lab. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and then received his PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal. Oliver's research is situated in the area of parallel computing and programming, with focus on scheduling algorithms for parallel systems; reconfigurable computing and acceleration with FPGAs; software engineering for parallel programming. He leads a team at the UoA contributing to the development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. Oliver authored the book "Task Scheduling for Parallel Systems", Wiley 2007. He is the general chair for the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology FPT'21, December 2021.