Oded Shmueli is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the Technion (Haifa, Israel). He graduated from Brandeis University (1977) and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1981). He has held positions at several leading industrial research laboratories including IBM Research, AT&T Bell Labs and MCC. He was a co-founder and CTO of Dealigence Ltd., a start-up company in the electronic commerce domain. His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of database systems, topics on which he has published widely. He also holds over 50 US patents. From 2006-2008 he served as the Dean of the Computer Science Faculty at the Technion and from 2008-2014 as the Executive Vice President for Research and the Managing Director of the Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.