Pablo Halpern has been programming in C++ since 1989 and has been a member of the C++ Standards Committee since 2007. He is currently an enginneer at Intel Corp., where he works on high-performance computing. As the former chairman of the Parallel Programming Models Working Group at Intel, he coordinated the efforts of teams working on Cilk Plus, TBB, OpenMP, and other parallelism languages, frameworks, and tools targeted to C++, C, and Fortran users. Pablo came to Intel from Cilk Arts, Inc., which was acquired by Intel in 2009. During his time at Cilk Arts, he co-authored the paper "Reducers and other Cilk++ Hyperobjects", which won best paper at the SPAA 2009 conference. His current work is focused on providing compiler support for a new generation of high-performance computing architectures as well aspromoting adoption of parallelism and vectorization constructs into the C++ and C standards. He lives with his family in southern New Hampshire, USA. When not working, he enjoys studying the viola, skiing, snowboarding, and watching opera. Twitter handle: @PabloGHalpern