Dr. Dos Reis received his PhD in Mathematics in 2001 from Universite Paris-VII and Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Parasol Lab within the Department of Computer Science prior to becoming a faculty member. His research interests include computer methods in geometry, computer algebra, mathematical software, programming languages and libraries, and generic programming. He is an active member of the ISO C++ standards committee where he represents AFNOR, the French national association for standards. He serves as Release Manager of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. In addition to his involvement in the GNU toolchain, Dr. Dos Reis is an active contributor to Axiom, the scientific computation system.