Prof. Wim Vanderbauwhede is a professor of computing science at the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. He has been teaching and researching operating systems for over a decade. His research focuses on high-level programming, compilation, and architectures for heterogeneous manycore systems and FPGAs, with a special interest in power-efficient computing and scientific high-performance computing (HPC). He is the author of ‘High-Performance Computing Using FPGAs.' He received his Ph.D. in Electrotechnical Engineering with Specialization in Physics from the University of Gent, Belgium, in 1996. Before moving into academic research, Prof. Vanderbauwhede worked as an ASIC design engineer and a senior technology R&D engineer for Alcatel Microelectronics.