Leandro Soares Indrusiak is a professor at the School of Computing, University of Leeds. His current research topics include real-time systems and networks, distributed embedded systems, on-chip multiprocessing, energy-efficient computing, cyber-physical systems, cloud and high-performance computing, and several types of resource allocation problems (in computing, manufacturing and transportation). He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in the main international conferences and journals covering those topics (nine of them received best paper awards). He is or has been a principal investigator in projects funded by EU, EPSRC, DFG, British Council and industry.
He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in 1995, obtained a MSc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 1998, and was issued a binational doctoral degree by UFRGS and Technische Universität Darmstadt in 2003. Prior to his appointment at Leeds, he was an academic with the Real-Time Systems group at the University of York (2008-2023), worked as a researcher at the Microelectronics Institute of TU Darmstadt (2001-2008) and held a tenured assistant professorship at the Informatics department of the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) (1998-2000).