Tanguy Risset is a full professor at INSA-Lyon (departement telecommunication), France. He is the head of the Inria Socrate team since 2013. His main current interests are in practical issues regarding software defined radio and ultra-low power computing. His background is in compilation and embedded systems (he created the Compsys Inria team in 2001, team dedicated to compilation for embedded system). He also worked for several year on high level synthesis in the nineties in the Cosi team headed by Sanjay Rajopadhye.