Biagio Cosenza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salerno, Italy. He joined the University of Salerno in August 2019 through a national brain gain program (AIM program) and received the Abilitazione for Italian Associate Professorship. From 2015 to 2019, he was Senior Research at the TU Berlin, Germany, where he was Principal Investigator for the DFG project Celerity and received his Habilitation from Faculty IV. From 2011 to 2015, he was Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he contributed to the Insieme Compiler project and the DK-Plus multidisciplinary platform for Scientific Computing. Professor Cosenza's primary research interests are in the field of high-performance computing, particularly with respect to programming models, compiler technology and software optimization. He is currently the Chair of the Language Special Interest Group at the UXL Foundation, member of the Khronos SYCL Working Group, Khronos Group technical member, IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member, and SIGHPC member. He has more than 60 international publications, his research is currently funded by the EuroHPC JU (LIGATE project), the Italian Ministry of Research (LibreRT project) and several industrial projects.