Márcio Eduardo Kreutz has a Ph.D. in Computing. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1994. He earned a master's degree in Computing in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 2005 from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. His research interests include Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips, reconfigurable architectures, and the optimization of Systems-on-Chips.