He obtained his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2003. For his Ph.D. thesis, he received the ETH Medal and the European Design and Automation Association’s “Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award” in 2004. Samarjit’s research interests are primarily in the area of system-level design of real-time and embedded systems. He has served on the technical program committees of a number of conferences in the real-time embedded systems area, including CODES+ISSS, DATE, RTSS, ECRTS and RTCSA. He also served as the TPC Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia), which was held in Seoul in October this year.