Pejman Lotfi-Kamran is an associate professor of computer science, the head of the School of Computer Science, and the director of Turin Cloud Services at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM). His research interests include computer architecture, computer systems, approximate computing, and cloud computing. His work on scale-out server processor design lays the foundation for Cavium ThunderX. Lotfi-Kamran has a Ph.D. in computer science from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received his MS and BS in computer engineering from the University of Tehran. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.