Diego R. Llanos received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Valladolid, Spain, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He is a recipient of the Spanish government's national award for academic excellence. Prof. Llanos is Full Professor of Computer Architecture and Head of the Computer Science Department at the Universidad de Valladolid. His current research interests include parallel and distributed computing, joint use of heterogeneous accelerators, and embedded computing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Senior Member of the ACM, and has co-founded RDNest, a company that transfers to market research results in the field of Internet of Things and high-performance computing. More information about his current research activities can be found at http://www.infor.uva.es/~diego.