Sérgio F. Lopes is currently an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Electronics Department, Engineering School of University of Minho, and researcher at CMEMS/LABBELS, at the same university. He received the MSc degree in Electrotechnical and Computers Engineering from University of Porto, and the PhD degree in Industrial Informatics from University of Minho, Portugal. He participated in several research projects applied to fields such as, agriculture, climate, sea, production line inspection and tourism. He has served as treasurer of Portuguese chapter of IEEE Computer Society, organized 3 international scientific events, and as editor and guest editor for 4 technical journals and proceedings. He has authored more than 30 papers in indexed publications and his research interests include software modelling and reuse, embedded and real-time systems, multiprocessing, and software performance.