He holds an MSc in Information Technology and a Ph.D. from the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2010, he was a McKay Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include modeling, simulation and programming of multimedia systems, formal models-of-computation, model-based design processes, multiprocessor systems-on-chip, networked embedded systems and cyber-physical systems, and multi-objective optimization and trade-off analysis. He has served as member or chair of several technical program committees. He has been involved with several national and international research projects and programs on the above topics with strong industrial connections.