Ingolf Krueger, PhD, is a Professor in the UCSD Computer Science and Engineering department and researcher in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). His major research interests are service-oriented software & systems engineering for distributed, reactive systems, software architectures, description techniques, verification & validation, and development processes. The application domains to which he applies his research results span the entire range from networked embedded systems to Internet-wide business information architectures. He supervises the development of the cyber-infrastructure for delivering computational services related to data analysis, data integration, and privacy technologies.