Professor John A. Stankovic is the BP America Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia and past Director of the Link Lab. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York for his work in real-time systems. He has also been awarded the IEEE 2024 Simon Ramo Medal. In 2022 he was elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Mediicine. He won the IEEE Real-Time Systems Technical Committee's Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership. He also won the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Distinguished Achievement Award (inaugural winner). He has won the 2022 IEEE TCCPS Technical Achievement Award for his work in Cyber Physical Systems. He has two test of time paper awards, nine Best Paper awards, and eleven Best Paper runner up awards. Stankovic has an h-index of 124 and over 67,400 citations. In 2015 he was awarded the Univ. of Virginia Distinguished Scientist Award, and in 2010 the School of Engineering’s Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2020, he received the Research Mentor Award from UVA. He also received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Massachusetts. He has given more than 40 Keynote talks at conferences and many Distinguished Lectures at major Universities He was the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Systems and was founder and co-editor-in-chief for the Real-Time Systems Journal and the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.