Dr. Sébastien Lafond is a senior researcher and docent in computing engineering at Åbo Akademi University. He received a M.Sc. (Tech) in Embedded Systems from the ESIGELEC School of Engineering and a Master of Advanced Studies from the University of Rouen in 2000 and a PhD (Tech) from Åbo Akademi University in 2009. Within several national and international research projects he has been working on the development low-power computing platforms and the development of low-latency media processing cloud-based solutions. His main research interests are energy efficient many-core systems, parallel signal processing platforms and AI-based approaches for automation and autonomous systems.