Yoav is renowned for his groundbreaking research in high-performance computing, which encompasses hardware accelerators, operating systems, and programming models. Etsion is a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology. Previously, Etsion headed the Technion Computer Engineering research center and was a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Yoav holds a BSc and MSc (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Science from the Hebrew University and a PhD from Hebrew University.