His interests are in the areas of applied programming languages and software engineering. He got his B.S. degree from the University of Crete (Greece) and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recipient of an NSF Career award, an ERC Starting/Consolidator grant, and "best paper" awards at ISSTA'12, ASE'07, ISSTA'06, GPCE'04, and USENIX'99. More information on his work can be found at: http://www.di.uoa.gr/~smaragd