Walid A. Najjar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California Riverside. His research insterests are in the fields of computer architecture and compiler optimizations, embedded systems and sensor networks. Lately, he has been very acrive in the are of compilation for FPGA-based code acceleration and reconfigurable computing. His research has been supported by NSF, DARPA and various industry sponsors. He received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1979 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University (1989 to 2000), before that he was with the USC-Information Sciences Institute. He has served on the program committees for a number of leading conferences in this area including CASES, ISSS-CODES, DATE, HPCA, and MICRO.