Radu Prodan is Professor of Edge Artificial Intelligence at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 2018-2025, he was professor in Distributed Systems at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and his Habilitation in 2009 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research interests are programming, performance analysis, optimisation and resource management tools for parallel and distributed systems. He has participated in numerous international projects, including coordinating the European Horizon 2020 project ARTICONF and the new Horizon Europe project Graph-Massivizer. He has co-authored more than 300 publications and received four IEEE best paper awards.