Hein Meling is Professor of Distributed Systems at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where he heads the reliable systems lab. He was the project manager for the BBChain and the Credence INTPART project, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Previously, he was co-PI on the Tidal News and IS-home projects, also funded by the Research Council of Norway. Meling has coauthored more than 60 publications and has successfully supervised five PhD students. He received a PhD in 2006 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Meling’s primary research interests are in software engineering support for building fault tolerant and secure distributed computing. He has worked on a wide range of topics, including Byzantine fault tolerance, testing and verification, peer-to-peer systems, and blockchains. Recently, his focus has been on blockchains and decentralized storage systems, with contributions towards optimizing tree-based BFT consensus, privacy-preserving and transparent certification system for digital credentials, and improving the scalability and robustness of decentralized storage systems such as Swarm.

Meling is an expert Go programmer and is frequently reviewing and contributing code to several open source projects, including bbhash, Gorums and relab/hotstuff.