He received a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Vienna University of Technology, a M.Sc. degree in Scientific Computing/Computational Mathematics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in Scientific Computing from Vienna University of Technology. After a post-doc stay at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville he joined the University of Vienna, where he received tenure in 2012. His research interests include (among others) high performance numerical computing, parallel and distributed computing, fault tolerant numerical algorithms and Internet security with a focus on botnet detection and prevention. 2014 © CMU Electrical & Computer Engineering