Lester Kalms is a postdoc and researcher in Computer Science in the Adaptive Dynamic Systems (ADS) chair at Technische Universit\"at Dresden, Germany, since June 2022. He received his Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) at the same chair. Before joining the chair, he studied Computer Engineering at the Technical University in Berlin where he received his Bachelor degree in 2013 and his Master degree in 2015. From July 2015 until May 2017 he was a Ph.D. student and assistant researcher in Electronical Engineering and Information Technology in the Application-Specific Multi-Core Architectures (MCA) research group from Prof. Dr.-Ing. Diana Göhringer at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB). His current research focuses on making FPGAs more accessible to software programmers by exploring methods and algorithms for efficient architecture and distribution of neural network-based accelerators using high-level synthesis.