Benoît Dupont de Dinechin is Chief Technology Officer of Kalray (http://www.kalray.eu), a company that manufactures integrated manycore processors for embedded and industrial applications. He is also the Kalray VLIW core main architect, and co-architect of the Kalray Multi Purpose Processing Array (MPPA). Benoît earned an engineering degree in Radar and Telecommunications from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Toulouse, France), and a doctoral degree in computer systems from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) under the direction of Prof. P. Feautrier. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the McGill university (Montreal, Canada) at the ACAPS laboratory led by Prof. G. R. Gao.