Pekka Jääskeläinen is an Associate Professor, and leads the Customized Parallel Computing Research group of Tampere University and works for Intel as a Principal Engineer. He has been contributing to heterogeneous platform customization and programming topics since early 2000s. In addition to his academic publication activities, he maintains or actively contributes to multiple heterogeneous computing related open source projects such as OpenASIP, portable computing language, and chipStar. He is interested in methods and tools to reduce the engineering effort in design and programming of diverse heterogeneous platforms, and generally in hardware and compiler techniques to reduce the energy consumption of programmable processors.