Hein Meling is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where he works on systems and protocols to improve the robustness of network services. He was co-PI on the Tidal News project funded by the Norwegian Research Council. He runs a small research group focusing on building a Paxos-based middleware framework to build robust network services. He received a PhD in 2006 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.