We would like to welcome Jiahong Bi to the CC Chair! Jiahong obtained his master’s degree on computer science from the TU Dresden in 2023 and his bachelor’s degree on engineering from eh Xidian University in China in 2019. Jiahong worked at the CC Chair as a student researcher, contributing for instance to the base2 MLIR dialect for custom representations, and in the context of his master thesis. In his thesis, entitled “A Lowering for High-Level Data Flows to Reconfigurable Hardware”, Jiahong worked on a novel dataflow MLIR dialect and a lowering path via high-level synthesis using the CIRCT project for FPGAs. He was supervised by Karl A. Friebel and Felix Suchert. With his expertise in high-level representations in compilers and tool-flows for heterogeneous systems, Jiahong will help our team in several projects that build around MLIR, most prominently on the MYRTUS EU Project. We are very happy to have Jiahong with us and are looking forward to working with him as PhD student.