Flavio Rech Wagner is Professor at the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he has been working since 1977 and served as Dean from 2006 to 2011. He was also Director of the Zenit Science Park at UFRGS, from 2011 to 2016. He is also a Board Member of CGI.br since 2008 and was the President of the Brazilian Computer Society from 1999 to 2003. Flavio is a Researcher at the Embedded Systems Lab of UFRGS, where his research interests include adaptive multiprocessor platforms, networks-on-chip and model-driven engineering of embedded systems.