I received my Diploma from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of the University of Patras, Greece in 1992, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. My PhD dissertation was one of the first efforts to reduce energy dissipation in high performance processors using architectural and compiler techniques. From 1999 to 2007, I was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Motorola Labs, Schaumburg, IL. I was one of the architects of Falcon, an MPEG4 video decoding chip used by the first Motorola camera phone, and has worked extensively on architecting Systems On Chip for multimedia and imaging applications. I later lead a team of researchers at Motorola to design and implement architectural synthesis EDA tools to automate the generation of streaming accelerators from a high level language. I have served as a technical program chair and as a general chair for the 2008 and 2009 Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW), respectively, and also as member of the technical program committee of numerous conferences, such as the 2008 International Conference on Microarchitecture (MICRO). I am also a Guest editor of the Journal on Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) at the special issue on Embedded Computer Vision.