EDUCATION

Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, 2005.
M.S. degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, 1999. 
B.S. degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, 1997.

TEACHING

Full-time associate professor at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) assigned to the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB).

CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY

My current research work focuses on the area of Energy-aware Management for Modern Distributed Computing Systems. I'm a member of the High Performance Computing Group at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC). I'm also an associate researcher at the Emerging Technologies for Artificial Intelligence research line in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where I lead the Energy-aware and Virtualization Technologies area. Our goal is to develop management algorithms for virtualised Data Centres in a large-scale distributed ecosystem running heterogeneous workloads that optimize their operation with respect to energy and ecological efficiency. We work on the following topics:

• Performance analysis of Virtual Machines and Containers in a virtualised Data Centre running HPC and Big Data workloads
• Models for the assessment and forecasting of energy and ecological efficiency in a virtualised Data Centre at different levels
• Policies for the optimization of the scheduling and placement of Virtual Machines and Containers in physical nodes considering the energy and ecological efficiency factors
• Policies for the selection of Data Centre for remote placement of Virtual Machines and Containers in a Data Centre ecosystem considering the energy and ecological efficiency factors
• Integration of the cooling and power supply subsystems in the energy management strategy of Data Centres
• Integration of renewable energy sources in the energy management strategy of Data Centres