Pierre Boulet earned a DEA d'Informatique Fondamentale (Master) in 1993 and a PhD in computer science in 1996 from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. He is currently professor of computer science at the Université Lille 1, France in the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL). He was also a member of the DaRT INRIA project team. His interests range from parallelism, compilation, co-design of embedded systems to model driven engineering and synchronous languages. He is currently interested in neuro-inspired computing architectures based on memristors. He is currently deputy director of CRIStAL.