Christophe Alias received his PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Versailles in 2005 and his Habilitation degree in Computer Science from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2019. His research interests include high-level program analysis, transformation and optimization including automatic parallelization for various architectures ranging from multicore processors to FPGAs. He is the mentor developer of the dcc compiler, a dataflow compiler for High-Level Synthesis transferred to the XtremLogic startup company he co-founded.