Deming Chen is the Abel Bliss Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include machine learning and AI, system-level design methodologies, hybrid cloud systems, security and confidential computing, and reconfigurable and heterogeneous computing. He has published more than 300 research papers, received 10 Best Paper Awards, 2 ACM/SIGDA TCFPGA Hall-of-Fame Paper Awards, 5 Best Poster Awards, and delivered more than 170 invited talks, including over 20 keynote and distinguished lectures. His research has generated substantial impact, with several open-source solutions adopted by industry (e.g., FCUDA, DNNBuilder, CSRNet, SkyNet, ScaleHLS, Medusa). He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and the former Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). Under his leadership, the impact factor of ACM TRETS has increased by 3.8 times. He serves as the Illinois Director of the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute and the Director of the AMD Center of Excellence. Additionally, he has been involved in several startup companies, including AutoESL and Inspirit IoT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2005.