Peter Feiler is a 33 year veteran and SEI Fellow at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His current research interest is in improving the quality of safety-critical software-reliant systems through architecture-centric virtual system integration and incremental life cycle assurance to reduce rework and qualification costs. Peter Feiler has been the technical lead and main author of the SAE Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) standard. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.