Lecturer/Speaker Bios

Javier Aula-Blasco

Photo of Javier Aula Blasc Javier Aula-Blasco is a Senior Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He holds a PhD in Psycholinguistics, an MSc in Natural Language Processing and an MSc in Language Education. Javier is the Head of Data and Model Evaluation at the Language Technologies Lab. On the Data side, his and his teams’s work aims at acquiring pre- and post-training data in a legal and traceable way, at generating and validating synthetic data, and at efficiently processing the data and finding optimal data distributions for training. On the Evaluation side, the team aims at continue developing a comprehensive evaluation setup for multilingual language models encompassing capabilities, bias and safety, at generating high-quality evaluation multilingual datasets, and at improving the human side of model evaluation. Javier is also a Core Lead in the Skill, Safety and Trust Evaluation working group of the Trillion Parameter Consortium, and collaborates with Madri+d and AQU Catalunya as as an external quality assessor.

Rosa Badia

Photo of Rosa Badia Rosa Badia holds a PhD on Computer Science (1994) from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).  She is the manager of the Workflows and Distributed Computing research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Her current research interest are programming models for complex platforms (from edge, fog, to Clouds and large HPC systems). The group led by Dr. Badia has been developing StarSs programming model for more than 10 years, with a high success in adoption by application developers. Currently the group focuses its efforts in PyCOMPSs/COMPSs, an instance of the programming model for distributed computing including Cloud. Dr Badia has published near 200 papers in international conferences and journals in the topics of her research. Her group is very active in projects funded by the European Commission and in contracts with industry.

Andrea Bartolini

Andrea Bartolini holds an associate professor position with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (Guglielmo Marconi) at the University of Bologna. He was a postdoctoral researcher with Integrated Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and several book chapters with focus on dynamic resource management—ranging from embedded to large scale HPC systems. He has collaborated with several international research and companies. Andrea Bartolini has been the main responsible for the design of advanced power management and monitoring support on the first Cavium ThunderX cluster, the D.A.V.I.D.E. and Marconi100 supercomputers. Since its inception Andrea Bartolini has served as the technical leader for the European-processor-initiative power management design. From 2021, Andrea Bartolini collaborated with CINECA and E4 engineering in the design of the Monte Cimone HPC cluster – the first RISC-V HPC cluster.

Luca Benini

Photo of Luca Benini Luca Benini holds the chair of digital Circuits and systems at ETHZ and is Full Professor at the Universita di Bologna. He received a PhD from Stanford University. Dr. Benini’s research interests are in energy-efficient parallel computing systems, smart sensing micro-systems and machine learning hardware. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the ACM and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award, the 2020 EDAA achievement Award, the 2020 ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Award and the 2023 IEEE CS E.J. McCluskey Award.

Josep Lluis Berral

Josep Lluís Berral received his Engineering degree in Informatics (2007), M.Sc. in Computer Architecture (2008), and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2013) at BarcelonaTech-UPC. He works in high-performance data-analytics and machine learning on cloud environments at the Department of Computer Architecture @ Barcelona-Tech (DAC-UPC) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He is the manager of the “Computing Resources Orchestration and Management for AI” group (UPC + BSC). He is currently collaborating in European projects and private projects with Intel and IBM, and previously with Databricks, Microsoft, Cisco and Petrobras. He did research at the “High-Performance Computing” group and at the “Relational Algorithms, Complexity and Learning” group at UPC. He has also been at the DarkLab group at Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) in 2012, also in IBM Watson Labs (Yorktown, NY) in 2019. He was awarded with a Juan de la Cierva research fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy in 2016. He is an IEEE and ACM member.

Júlia Falcão

Júlia Falcão is a Junior Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Brazil and a double master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Malta. She works in the Language Technologies Lab at the BSC on the evaluation of multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) and coordinates tasks related to social and cognitive bias in the models.

Jack Marquez

Image of Jack Marquez Jack Marquez is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as a member of the Global Computing Laboratory directed by Dr. Michela Taufer. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering in 2022 from the University Autonoma de Occidente (Cali, Colombia) after graduating with his BSc in Informatics Engineering from the same university in 2013. From 2013, he worked as a researcher and, in 2016, as an adjunct professor for the same university. He also worked as a software developer for national and international companies. His research interests include HPC, Scientific applications, Data Engineering, Cloud Computing, and performance optimization.

Javier Sabariego

Photo of Arvind Ramanathan Backend and infrastructure engineer at Qilimanjaro-Quantum Tech.

Victor Sanchez

Photo of Arvind Ramanathan Quantum Software Engineer specialized in quantum control with superconducting qubits at Qilimanjaro-Quantum Tech.

Michela Taufer

Photo of Michela Taufer Michela Taufer is an AAAS Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. She holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High-Performance Computing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK). She earned her undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy) and her doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology or ETH (Switzerland). She has a long history of interdisciplinary work with scientists. Her research interests include software applications and their advance programmability in heterogeneous computing (i.e., multi-core platforms and GPUs); cloud computing and volunteer computing; and performance analysis, modeling and optimization of multi-scale applications. She has been serving as the principal investigator of several NSF collaborative projects. She also has significant experience in mentoring a diverse population of students on interdisciplinary research.Her community service includes efforts to spread high-performance computing participation in undergraduate education and research as well as efforts to increase the interest and participation of diverse populations in interdisciplinary studies.

Mireia Tena

Photo of Mireia Tena Quantum Engineer specialized in the characterization and calibration of superconducting qubit systems at Qilimanjaro-Quantum Tech.

Mateo Valero

Photo of Mateo Valero Mateo Valero, http://www.bsc.es/cv-mateo/" is profesor of Computer Architecture at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and is the Founding Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where his research focuses on high performance computing architectures. He has published approximately 700 papers, has served in the organization of more than 300 International Conferences and has given more than 600 invited talks. Prof. Valero has been honored with numerous awards, among them the three most relevant awards in the Computer Architecture field: The Eckert-Mauchly Award 2007 by IEEE and ACM, the Seymour Cray Award 2015 by IEEE and the Charles Babbage 2017 by IEEE. Among other awards, Prof. Valero has received The Harry Goode Award 2009 by IEEE, The Distinguish Service Award by ACM and the Spanish National awards “Julio Rey Pastor” and “Leonardo Torres Quevedo”. Prof. Valero is a "Hall of the Fame" member of the ICT European Program (selected as one of the 25 most influents European researchers in IT during the period 1983-2008, Lyon, November 2008). In 2020 he was awarded the “HPCWire Reader’s Choice Awards” “for his exceptional leadership in HPC” and for “being an HPC pioneer since 1990 and the driving force behind the renaissance of European HPC independence”. He has been also honored with “Condecoración de la Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca” 2018, the highest recognition granted by the Mexican Government. Prof. Valero holds Honorary Doctorate by 10 Universities, is member of 10 academies and a fellow of IEEE and ACM, and Fellow of AAIA, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. In 1998 Mateo Valero was distinguished as “Favourite Son” of his home town, Alfamén (Zaragoza) and in 2006, his native town of Alfamén named its Public School after him.

Pablo Vizcaino

Photo of Pablo Vizcaino Pablo Vizcaino is a second-year Computer Architecture PhD student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where he previously earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's degree in Innovation and Research in Informatics. He is also a researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, working on the deployment and evaluation of emerging prototypes for High Performance Computing, the development of emulation and performance analysis tools, and the study of scientific applications on those prototypes. He is currently focused on architectures based on RISC-V, specifically those leveraging the vector extension.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

Lecturer/Speaker Bios

Javier Aula-Blasco

Rosa Badia

Andrea Bartolini

Luca Benini

Josep Lluis Berral

Júlia Falcão

Jack Marquez

Javier Sabariego

Victor Sanchez

Michela Taufer

Mireia Tena

Mateo Valero

Pablo Vizcaino

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