Abstract :
After a brief review of the publishing statistics for the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters , the current Editor-in-Chief (EIC) introduces the new leadership team of Prof. Krithi Ramamritham as EIC and Catherine Gebotys as Deputy EIC. This leadership emerged after an extensive search for the EIC earlier this year. Prof. Ramamritham is an Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the author of almost 500 papers spanning many areas of embedded systems including real-time systems, distributed systems, databases, and sensor networks. Prof. Ramamritham is a researcher par excellence to lead the journal, and brings a wealth of experience in journal leadership from his tenure as EIC of the Real-Time Systems Journal and has been associated with many editorial boards. Dr. Catherine Gebotys is a Professor and a Professional Engineer with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, and is the author of over 100 papers in the areas of electronic design automation, embedded systems security, and low-power design, Dr. Gebotys brings a wealth of research and practical experience built over two decades in the industry and academia.