Román Hermida received a Ph.D. degree in 1994 from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Architecture and Systems Engineering. He is a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include design automation, computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, and embedded systems. Dr. Hermida has been actively involved in program committees of several international conferences, and served as the Program Chair of the International Symposium on System Synthesis in 2000, and General Chair of the same conference in 2001. He received the 2002 IEEE VLSI Transactions best paper award. He has also served as Track Chair for CODES+ISSS and DATE. He was the Program Co-chair of the Spanish Conference on Informatics (CEDI 2013), and since 2014, he is serving as the scientific manager for the area of Informatics at the Spanish R&D Agency. Within the Complutense University, he served as Vice-Chancellor for New Technologies (2001-2003), Dean of the School of Computer Science (2006-2010), and as a member of several advisory and government boards. In 2011, he was a visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.