Presenter

Mateo Valero is a full professor in the Computer Architecture Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and the director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). His research interests focus on high performance architectures. Prof. Valero has published approximately 600 papers, served in the organization of more than 300 International conferences and given more than 400 invited talks. He has been honoured with several awards, among which the Seymour Cray, Eckert-Mauchly, Harry Goode, ACM Distinguished Service, and “King Jaime I” awards, and been named Honorary Doctor by the University of Chalmers (Sweden), Belgrade (Serbia), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Zaragoza and Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and Veracruz (Mexico). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM, and an Intel Distinguished Research Fellow.