Dr. Giuseppe Congiu is a Research Scientist at Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL), University of Tennessee Knoxville, where he works on performance measurement and modelling. Before joining ICL he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), where he worked on Programming Models and Runtime Systems for large scale Supercomputing Clusters. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy. Over the past decade he has worked on several exascale projects (EU and US funded) and focused on different aspects of the software stack and implementation, ranging from distributed and parallel I/O to communication libraries.