Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi is a professor of Computer Science at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he heads the System Security Lab. Since 2012 Prof. Sadeghi established a long-term cooperation with Intel and founded several Collaborative Research Centers on topics like Secure Computing and Collaborative Autonomous and Resilient Systems. The latest research takes place on Private AI. For his influential research on Trusted Computing he received the renowned German "Karl Heinz Beckurts" award. This award honors excellent scientific achievements with high impact on industrial innovations in Germany. He is the author of more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the field of IT security and privacy and was, amongst others, Editor-In-Chief of the prestigious IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. He is also on the advisory board of several large multinational IT-enterprises. In 2018 Prof. Sadeghi received the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award for dedicated research, education, and management leadership in the security community and for pioneering contributions in content protection, mobile security and hardware-assisted security. SIGSAC is ACM’s Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control.