João M.P. Cardoso is a full professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal and a research member at INESC TEC. Before, he was with the IST/Technical Univ. of Lisbon (UTL) (2006–08), a senior researcher at INESC-ID (2001–09), and with the University of Algarve (1993–2006). In 2001/2002, he worked for PACT XPP Technologies, Inc., Munich, Germany. He received his PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from IST/Technical University of Lisbon in 2001. He served as a Program Committee member, as General Co-Chair, and as Program Co-Chair in many international conferences. He has (co-)authored over 150 scientific publications on subjects related to compilers, embedded systems, and reconfigurable computing. In addition, he has been involved in several research projects. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Computer Society, and a senior member of ACM. His research interests include compilation techniques, domain-specific languages, reconfigurable computing, application-specific architectures, and high-performance computing with a particular emphasis in embedded computing.

José Gabriel F. Coutinho is an associate researcher working in the Custom Computing Research Group at Imperial College London. He received his M. Eng. degree in computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal in 1997. In 2000 and 2007 he received his MSc and PhD in computing science from Imperial College London, respectively. Since 2005, he has been involved in United Kingdom and EU research projects, including FP6 hArtes, FP7 REFLECT, FP7 HARNESS, and H2020 EXTRA. In addition, he has published over 50 research papers in peer-referred journals and international conferences and has contributed to four book publications. His research interests include reconfigurable computing, HPC platforms, cloud computing platforms, high-level compilation techniques, programming models, and domain-specific languages.

Pedro C. Diniz received his MS in electrical and computer engineering from the Technical University in Lisbon, Portugal and his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997. Since 1997 he has been a research associate with the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) and a research assistant professor of Computer Science at USC in Los Angeles, California. He has participated and/or led various research projects in the area of compilation for high-performance computing, mapping and synthesis for reconfigurable computing architectures, and more recently resilient computing. He has also been heavily involved in the scientific community having participated as part of the technical program committee of over 20 international conferences in the area of high-performance computing, reconfigurable and field-programmable computing.