Kees Vissers graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1980. He joined Philips Research in Eindhoven the Netherlands. There he worked on discrete event simulators, VLIW architectures, Video Signal Processor architectures that today would be called reconfigurable systems and several video processing implementations. He headed for several years the research on Hardware Software Co-Design. He was a visiting Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley. He was director of Architecture at Trimedia and Chief Technology Officer of Chameleon Systems. He is currently working at Xilinx Research on new systematic benchmarking of tools and architectures for Reconfigurable systems. His research interests include video processing, network processing, reconfigurable systems, computer architectures, and programmable and reconfigurable systems for embedded applications.