Rainer Dömer received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2000. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is also a member of the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS) at UCI. His research interests include system-level design and methodologies, embedded computer systems, specification and modeling languages, system-on-chip design, and embedded hard- and software systems. In 2008, Rainer Dömer received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his research on efficient modeling of embedded computer systems.