Luis Plana is a Research Fellow with the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) Group in the School of Computer Science. Luis obtained an Ingeniero Electrónico (Cum Laude) degree from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela, an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University. Before coming to Manchester, Luis was an academic at Universidad Politécnica, Venezuela, for over 20 years, where he was Professor of Electronic Engineering and Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering (1999-2000). In 1986, Luis was part of a group of academics from Universidad Politécnica that started Invicta Electrónica, a spin-off company that designs and manufactures networked, intelligent traffic control systems. Luis led the design team until 1992, when he returned to full-time academic duty. Luis was a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia University (1993-1997). Luis is a Senior Member of the IEEE.