Dr. Sabri Pllana holds a PhD degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology. His working experience in the last three decades include, senior scientist at the University of Vienna in Austria, associate professor in Sweden, director of a research center in Austria, and consultant for the World Bank. His research interests include: high performance computing (HPC), AI, modeling and optimization. He also studies properties of various kinds of socio-technical systems using innovative modelling and simulation techniques. He contributed to several EU-funded projects and he coordinated the FP7 project PEPPHER. Sabri Pllana is Senior Member of the IEEE, ACM member, associate editor of Computing journal (Springer), and HiPEAC member.