Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis is a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and faculty member at the Faculty of Informatics (FIB), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is the recipient of the RISC-V Educator of the Year 2019 Award from the RISC-V Foundation, an Honourable Mention for the EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award 2018 and his research has been recognized with several HiPEAC's Technology Transfer Awards. He holds a PhD and a MSc in Computer Architecture from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and a BSc in Computer Science from University of Crete. He is currently leading the embedded accelerator (GPU and FPGA) and system software activities for critical systems in the CAOS group at BSC. He is the PI of an Intel Hardware Accelerator Research Program (HARP) v2 project and the coordinator of the GPU4S (GPU for Space) and ASIL2ECSS ESA funded projects.