Mário Véstias is a Coordinate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, School of Engineering (ISEL), Department of Electronic, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering (DEETC). He is a senior researcher at the Electronic Systems Design and Automation group at the research institute INESC-ID in Lisbon. His main research interests are Computer Architectures and Digital Systems for High-Performance Embedded Computing, with an emphasis on Reconfigurable Computing. He has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon.