Izzat El Hajj is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the American University of Beirut. His research interests are in application acceleration and programming support for emerging parallel processors and memory technologies, with a particular interest in GPUs and processing-in-memory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a recipient of the Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Distinguished Graduate Award at the American University of Beirut.