Bhagirath Narahari received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He joined The George Washington University in 1987, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. From 1999 – 2002 he was the founding Chair of the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Pervasive computing, Networks, and Parallel Computingg. Since Fall 1999, he has collaboratively formed and led the GWU research group in embedded systems and compilers. Prof. Narahari has published over 75 journal and refereed conference articles in various areas of architecture, networks, parallel processing and computer systems. Recently, he has served on several national committees. Prof. Narahari's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Rome Air Force Labs, NASA, NSA and America Online. His recent research activities have included power-aware computing (funded by NASA and IAI); (funded by NSA) in embedded systems and optimizing compilers (NSA); software systems and specification (Rome Labs), pervasive computing (funded by AOL), security in embedded systems (funded by NSF). Most of these projects have included both fundamental research and software deliverables including an open source research compiler infrastructure for the Intel Itanium processor (http://hydrogen.cs.gwu.edu/tritanium. A complete list of Prof. Narahari’s publications may be found on his homepage: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~narahari.