Antonio González received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. He is the founding director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center, started in 2002, whose research focuses on new microarchitecture paradigms and code generation techniques for future microprocessors. Prior to his work at Intel, he joined the faculty of the Computer Architecture Department of UPC in 1986 and became a Full Professor in 2002. He currently holds a part-time Professor position at this department.

        He has published over 300 papers, has given over 80 invited talks, has filed over 40 patents and has advised 18 PhD thesis in the areas of Resilient Processors, Multicore Architectures, Power-Aware Microarchitectures, Clustered Microarchitectures, Speculative Multithreaded Processors, Data Value and Data Dependence Speculation and Reuse, Cache Architectures, Register File Architecture, Modulo Scheduling, Code Analysis and Optimization, Parallel Algorithms, Prolog-Oriented Architectures, Instruction Fetching Mechanisms, and Digital Image Processing.

        He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters and Journal of Embedded Computing. He has served on the program committees for over 100 international symposia in the field of computer architecture, including ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS, PACT, ICS, ISPASS, CASES and IPDPS. He has been program chair for ICS 2003, ISPASS 2003, MICRO 2004 and HPCA 2008, and general chair for MICRO 2008 among other symposia.

        González’s awards include the award to the best student in computer engineering in Spain graduating in 1986, the 2001 Rosina Ribalta award as the advisor of the best PhD project in Information Technology and Communications, the 2008 Duran Farrell award for research in technology, and the 2009 Aritmel National Award of Informatics to the Computer Engineer of the Year.