Grigori Fursin is a multi-faceted computer scientist, engineer, educator, and business executive. He has an interdisciplinary pedigree in computer engineering, physics, electronics, and machine learning. Fursin has made remarkable contributions to the scientific and academic community with cutting edge research work at reputable institutions like the University of Edinburgh, Intel Exascale Lab, and INRIA. His innovative ideas on machine learning, autotuning, and knowledge sharing have enhanced testing, optimization, and co-design of efficient software and hardware by several folds. Fursin has also taken the lead in several management positions, developed the world's first ML-based compiler, and the cTuning.org platform with IBM and ARC (Synopsys) to crowdsource optimization of computer systems. He founded cKnowledge.io, an open playground that bridges the gap between academia and industry and co-directs the Intel Exascale Lab. In recent years, Fursin has dedicated much of his time to accelerate open science, utilizing the Collective Knowledge framework to automate the exploration of AI/ML/SW/HW stacks while balancing speed, accuracy, innovation, energy, and costs. He has also co-founded an engineering company, led it to $1M+ in revenue with Fortune 50 customers using his CK technology, and was honored with the EU technology transfer award. Fursin has served as a founding member of the ACM task force on reproducibility and MLCommons, introducing reproducibility checklist and artifact evaluation at conferences like MLSys, ASPLOS, CGO, and PPoPP. He has also given 100+ invited research talks in his illustrious career.