S. Crespi Reghizzi, a member of the faculty of Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Electronics and Information, is engaged on basic and technological research on compilers. His interests encompass formal languages and automata, compiler optimization and parallelization, programming languages, and man-machine interfaces. He has written many scientific publications in the areas above. He is the chairman of the PhD program in Information Technology of Politecnico di Milano, the director of CESTIA (CNR research center on computer and automation technology), and a lecturer on Formal Languages at University of Lugano. He has been involved on research projects with several companies and universities, including Università di Pisa, UC (Berkeley, Los Angeles), Stanford University, Université de Paris, and Harvard University.