He works, broadly, in the area of real-time and dependable systems, and believes that good theory enables pragmatic engineering design choices. He has received awards for his publications from the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2008) and at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (2004). He has been responsible for the web presence of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems since 2008 and is open to suggestions for how to effectively promote the activities of IEEE TCRTS.