Seif Haridi is the Chief Scientific Advisor of RISE SICS.
He is Chair-Professor of Computer Systems specialized in parallel and distributed computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He led a European research program on Cloud Computing and Big Data by EIT-Digital between 2010 to 2013, and is a co-founder of a number of start-ups in the area of distributed and cloud computing including HiveStreaming and LogicalClocks.
He is well-known for the textbook "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" which explains many difficult programming concepts in a simple and insightful way. For more than ten years he has been teaching two popular courses on distributed algorithms and peer-to-peer computing at KTH. His research is focused on the combination of systems research and theory in the areas of programming systems and distributed computing. He is a co-designer of SICStus Prolog, the most well known logic programming system, and the Mozart Programming System, a high-quality open-source development platform based on the Oz multi-paradigm programming language. Recently, together with his research group, he has been contributing to the design of Apache Flink, a Big Data distributed engine for streaming analytics, and HOPS the first European complete platform for data-analytics and machine learning. HOPS-FS the file system of HOPS won IEEE Scale Prize 2017 as the most scalable HDFS filesystem.
More information at: http://www.sics.se/~seif