Presenter

Antonio J. Peña is a Leading Researcher and Group Manager at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Computer Sciences Department, where he leads the Accelerators and Communications for HPC group. He holds a secondary appointment as teaching and research staff at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Dr. Peña is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow and former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow. He currently holds an ERC Consolidator Grant. He is a recipient of the 2023 Agustín de Betancourt y Molina Award from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering and the 2017 IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing, among others. As an ACM/IEEE Senior Member, he is involved in the organization and steering committees of several conferences and workshops such as SC, IEEE Cluster, and AsHES. His research interests in the area of runtime systems and programming models for high performance computing include resource heterogeneity and communications.