Yannis Papaefstathiou’s main research interests are in the design and implementation methodologies for CPS with tightly coupled design parameters and highly constrained resources as well as in heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Before joining Aristotle University of Thessaloniki he was an Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor and Professor at ECE School at Technical University of Crete. He has published more than 100 papers in IEEE and ACM-sponsored journals and conferences, he has been the guest editor an IEEE Micro issues and he is a member of the Program Committee of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He is participating / has participated in numerous European R&D Programmes; in total he has been Principal Investigator in more than 15 competitively funded research projects in Europe (in more than half of them he was the technical coordinator of the whole project), in the last 10 years, where his cumulative budget share exceeds €9 million.