Cristian Cadar is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he leads the Software Reliability Group (http://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk), working on automatic techniques for increasing the reliability and security of software systems. Cristian’s research has been recognised by several prestigious awards, including the IEEE TCSE New Directions Award, BCS Roger Needham Award, HVC Award, EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Award, and two test of time awards. Many of the research techniques he co-authored have been used in both academia and industry. In particular, he is principal maintainer and developer of the KLEE symbolic execution system, a popular system with a large user base. Cristian has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, and undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.