Curriculum Vitae
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Education |
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PhD. in Math. & Computing Sciences at the Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
(Sep. 2012) |
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Master in Distributed Systems at the Universite Pierre & Marie
Curie, Paris, France.
(Sep. 2009) |
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Bachelor in Computer Sciences at the Universite Pierre & Marie
Curie, Paris, France.
(Jun. 2006) |
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Bachillerato at the French-Nicaraguan School Victor Hugo, Managua,
Nicaragua.
(Nov. 2001) |
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Elementary and Secondary at the Swiss School Refous, Bogota,
Colombia.
(Nov. 2000) |
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Work Appointments |
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Senior Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona,
Spain. Leading research on memory reliability for low-power
devices and hierarchical memories. Interest on error injection
analysis and approximate computing. Continuous integration and
maintenance of the multilevel checkpoint library FTI.
(Mar. 2016 - Ongoing) |
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL,
USA. Research in resilience covering silent data corruption
detection through the use of machine learning. Integration of SDC
detectors into a resilience library. Improvement and maintenance
of FTI as a research and production tool.
(Apr. 2013 - Feb. 2016) |
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Postdoctoral Appointee at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo,
Japan. Development and evaluation of a library integrating fast
multilevel checkpointing and failure prediction with proactive
checkpointing. Partial parallelization study of an application
simulating the Fukushima power plant accident.
(Oct. 2012 - Mar. 2013) |
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Awards and Fellowships |
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2016 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award
for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers.
(December 2016)
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship granted by the European
Commission for the two-years project "DURO : Deep-memory Ubiquity,
Reliability and Optimization". (February 2016)
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ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Ph.D.
Fellow at Supercomputing Conference 2011 (SC11), Honorable Mention.
(November 2011)
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Special Certificate of Recognition for achieving a perfect score at
the Supercomputing Conference 2011, "FTI : High Performance Fault
Tolerance Interface for Hybrid Systems". (November 2011)
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Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Research
Fellowships for Young Scientists (Doctoral Course), from April 2010
until March 2012 (About JPY 3'100,000/year). (April 2010)
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First Place Winner in the 1st National High School Speech and
Debate Tournament in Managua, Nicaragua. (May 2001)
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Chairmanships and Committees |
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ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC'20)
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International Conference in Supercomputing (ICS'20)
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Field Programmable Logic & Applications (FPL'19)
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EuroMPI Conference (EuroMPI'18)
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Workshop on Fault-Tolerance Systems (FTS'17)
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IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'17)
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Journal on Micromachines (Special Issue on Machine Learning for System Diagnosis)
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Journal Concurrency and Computation (Special Issue)
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Workshop on High Performance Machine Learning (HPML'19) (HPML'20)
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Workshop on Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale
Computing (DRMEC 2019)
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ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC'17), (SC'19)
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ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC'21)
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ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC'18)
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IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'17)
(CLUSTER'18) (CLUSTER'21)
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Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant
Storage Systems 2021 (CHEOPS'21)
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International Workshop on OpenCL and SYCL (IWOCL-SYCL'21)
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IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
(IPDPS'18) (IPDPS'19) (IPDPS'20) (IPDPS'22)
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Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS'20)
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International Workshop on openCL (IWOCL'17), (IWOCL'18), (IWOCL'19), (IWOCL'20)
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Workshop on Fault-Tolerance for HPC at Extreme Scale (FTXS'13),
(FTXS'14), (FTXS'15), (FTXS'16), (FTXS'17), (FTXS'18), (FTXS'19)
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Workshop on Fault-Tolerance Systems (FTS'15), (FTS'16), (FTS'17), (FTS'18)
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Colombia Computing Congress (CCC'16), (CCC'17), (CCC'18)
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International Conference on Bioinspired Intelligence, HPC for
natural and health sciences (IWOBI'18)
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Latinamerican Conference on High Performance Computing (CARLA'18) (CARLA'19)
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IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid
Computing (CCGRID'16), (CCGRID'17)
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International Workshop on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques
for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC'16).
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Journal of Signal Processing Systems
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International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics
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International Journal on Cluster Computing
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International Journal on Parallel Computing (PARCO)
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International Journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems (TPDS)
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International Journal Transactions on Architecture and Code
Optimization (TACO), ACM Society
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International Journal Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), IEEE
Computer Society
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Student Supervision and Mentoring |
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PhD Supervisor of Mikel Cortes Goicoechea on his PhD on P2P network
Analysis for next generation Blockchains at Polytechnical University of Catalunya,
Spain.
(Oct. 2021 - Ongoing) |
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PhD Supervisor of Kai Keller on his PhD on Resilience for
Data Assimilation at Extreme Scale at Polytechnical University of Catalunya,
Spain.
(Oct. 2019 - Ongoing) |
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Supervising Marc Perello during his internship on fault tolerance for FPGAs
and adaptation for deep learning frameworks at BSC, Spain.
(Oct. 2019 - Ongoing) |
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Mentor of Kevser Ildes during the PRACE Summer of HPC on
lossy techniques for checkpoint/restart at BSC, Spain.
(Jul. 2021 - Aug. 2021) |
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Mentor of Athanasios Kastoras during the PRACE Summer of HPC on
lossy techniques for checkpoin/restart at BSC, Spain.
(Jul. 2021 - Aug. 2021) |
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Mentor of Jakub Raczynski during the PRACE Summer of HPC on
distributed model parallelism for deep learning at BSC, Spain.
(Jul. 2021 - Aug. 2021) |
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Mentor of Mehmet Erciyes during the PRACE Summer of HPC on
distributed model parallelism for deep learning at BSC, Spain.
(Jul. 2021 - Aug. 2021) |
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PhD Supervisor of Albert Kahira on his PhD on Resilience for
Machine Learning Workflows at Polytechnical University of Catalunya,
Spain.
(Nov. 2017 - Jul. 2021) |
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Supervising Mikel Cortes Goicoechea (Graduate Student at Pais Vasco
University, during his internship on Blockchain scalability at BSC,
Spain.
(Aug. 2020 - Jun. 2021) |
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Supervising Luca Franceschini (Graduate Student at the Polytechnical
University of Catalunya, during his internship on Blockchain
scalability at BSC, Spain.
(Sep. 2020 - Nov. 2020) |
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Supervising Elvis Rojas Ramirez (PhD Student at Instituto de Technologia
de Costa Rica), during his internship on resilience for Deep Learning at
BSC, Spain.
(Jan. 2020 - Mar. 2020) |
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Supervising Dr Konstantinos Parasyris during his Postdoc on Resilience for
low-power high-performance accelerators at BSC, Spain.
(Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2020) |
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Supervising Pak Markthub (PhD Student at Tokyo Institute of
Technology), during his internship on Streaming GPU Checkpointing
at BSC, Spain.
(May 2018 - Jun. 2018) |
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Supervising Dr Oguz Kaya (PostDoctoral Appointee at INRIA), during
his research visit on Approximating Tensors at BSC, Spain.
(May 2018 - Jun. 2018) |
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Supervising Max Baird (PhD Student at Heriot-Watt University),
during his internship on Intra-kernel GPU checkpointing at BSC,
Spain.
(Apr. 2018 - May 2018) |
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Supervising Nuria Losada (PhD Student at University A Coruna),
during her internship on Complementing FTI with ABFT techniques at
BSC, Spain.
(Oct. 2017 - Nov. 2017) |
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Supervising Maxime Kermarker (Graduate Student), during his
internship on the MPC implementation of FTI at BSC, Spain.
(Jun. 2017 - Jul. 2017) |
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Supervising Valentin Lefevre (PhD Student at ENS Lyon), during his
internship on Approximate Computing for Multigrid Methods at BSC,
Spain.
(Apr. 2017 - May 2017) |
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Supervising Rodrigo Arias (Graduate Student), during his internship
on Approximate Computing for Principal Component Analysis at BSC,
Spain.
(Jan. 2017 - Apr. 2017) |
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Supervising Albert Kahira (Graduate Student), during his internship
on Resilience of Neural Networks at BSC, Spain.
(Jul. 2016 - Aug. 2016) |
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Supervising Mohamed Gaalich (Graduate Student), during his
internship on Adapting FTI to multiple I/O formats at BSC, Spain.
(Jun. 2016 - Jul. 2016) |
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Supervising Omer Subasi (PhD student at Barcelona Supercomputing
Center), during his internship on Evaluating Support Vector
Machines for HPC Resilience at ANL, USA.
(Aug. 2015 - Nov. 2015) |
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Supervising Eduardo Berrocal (PhD student at Illinois Institute of
Technology), during his internship on Spatio-temporal Analysis for
Silent Error detection at ANL, USA.
(May 2015 - Aug. 2015) |
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Mentoring Javier Iparraguirre during the SC14 Broader Engagement
program at New Orleans, USA.
(Nov. 2014 - Nov. 2014) |
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Supervising Eduardo Berrocal (PhD student at Illinois Institute of
Technology), during his internship in Online Data Analytics for
Silent Error detection at ANL, USA.
(May 2014 - Sep. 2014) |
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Supervising Adele Villiermet (Graduate Student), during her
internship on Multilevel Checkpointing for Large Scale Application
at CINES, France.
(Jun. 2013 - Aug. 2013) |
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Teaching, Tutorials, Summer Schools and Hackathons |
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Master course on Sharding and Proof-of-Stake for Blockchain Scalability
(Eth2) at the UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
(Apr. 2021) |
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Master course on Sharding for Blockchain Scalability (Ethereum
Sharding) at the UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
(Apr. 2020) |
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Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Applications tutorial at
CCGrid'19, Larnaca, Cyprus.
(May 2019) |
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Master course on Sharding for Blockchain Scalability (Ethereum
Sharding) at the UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
(Apr. 2019) |
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Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Applications tutorial at
HiPEAC'19, Valencia, Spain.
(Jan. 2019) |
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Organizer of the Hackathon on Parallel
Programming, GPU Computing and Software Security at BSC, Barcelona Spain.
(Dec. 2018) |
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Postgraduate course on Sharding for Blockchain Scalability
(Ethereum Sharding) at the UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
(Jun. 2018) |
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Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Applications tutorial at
HiPEAC'18, Manchester, UK.
(Jan. 2018) |
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Organizer of the Hackathon on Parallel
Programming, GPU Computing and Software Security at BSC, Barcelona Spain.
(Nov. 2017) |
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Multilevel Checkpointing for large scale applications tutorial at
the Resilience Winter School, Calabria, Italy.
(Jan. 2017) |
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Organizer of the Hackathon on Parallel
Programming, GPU Computing and Software Security at BSC, Barcelona Spain.
(Oct. 2016) |
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Resilience Summer School (Checkpointing and fault tolerance at large
scale) at the 5th JLESC Workshop, Lyon, France.
(Jun. 2016) |
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Multilevel checkpointing for large scale applications Tutorial at
CCGrid'2016, Cartagena, Colombia.
(May 2016) |
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Multilevel Checkpointing for large scale applications tutorial at
the Mont-Blanc 2 Resilience school at BSC, Barcelona Spain.
(Mar. 2016) |
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Instructor of the CS 498 class, (Hot Topics in HPC - Fault
Tolerance and Checkpointing) at UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
(Apr. 2011) |
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Private teacher in sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Quemistry) for
high school students, Acadomia, Paris, France.
(May 2007 - Mar. 2009) |
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International Mobility and Internships |
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Research visit on Deep Learning Scalability
at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. (Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019) |
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Research visit on Approximate Computing and Machine Learning
at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. (Jul. 2018 - Aug. 2018) |
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Internship in Erasure Codes (Reed-Solomon) for Cloud
Computing and Distributed Storage at NCSA/UIUC, Urbana,
USA. (Sep. 2011 - Dec. 2011) |
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Internship in Reliable Clustering for Petascale Computing,
trade-off between resilience and performance of communications at
LRI, Orsay, France. (Jun. 2011 - Sep. 2011) |
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Internship in Scalable Multilevel Checkpointing for HPC
Applications at NCSA/UIUC, Urbana-Chapaign, USA. (Mar. 2011 - Jun. 2011) |
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Internship in Diskless Checkpointing for scientific codes
running in Supercomputers at INRIA/Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Tokyo, Japan. (Apr. 2009 - Sep. 2009) |
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Internship in 3D-visualization of internet traffic and
internet attacks (i.e., DoS Attacks) at the NII, Tokyo,
Japan. (Jun. 2008 - Sep 2008) |
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Internship in distributed model checking for formal
verification of critical codes at the LIP6, Paris,
France. (Mar. 2008 - May 2008) |
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Outreach Activities and Public Dissemination |
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Once a month I present a topic about computing technology on a
program on the Altraradio Radio station, Spain. (2020-2021) |
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Presenting the talk "Blockchain and applications" at the
Reshaping Science event organized by the Societat Catalana Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
Barcelona, Spain. (Oct. 2021) |
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Explain about errors in supercomputer induced by cosmic rays
on the article "Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an
extraterrestrial threat". (Jul. 2021) |
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Explain about cryptocurrency energy consumption on newspaper
article, El Periodico "Bitcóin y las criptomonedas consumen más
energía que países enteros", Spain. (Mar. 2021) |
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Presenting the talk "Blockchain : Virtual Chains for real Freedom"
at the Impact Africa Network from Kenya, Virtual. (Mar. 2021) |
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Participation at the Argonne National Laboratory Postdoc
Symposium Academic Career Panel, Virtual. (Nov. 2020) |
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Present and explain the supercomputer Marenostrum 4 during
the Open Barcelona festival, Barcelona, Spain. (Oct. 2019) |
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Presenting the talk "Blockchain : Virtual Chains for real Freedom"
at the Science Festival, Barcelona, Spain. (Jun. 2019) |
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Presenting the talk "Blockchain : Virtual chains for real freedom"
at the Pint of Science, Barcelona, Spain. (May. 2019) |
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Presenting the talk "Learning about Ethereum Sharding"
at the Devcentralised Meetup, Barcelona, Spain. (Nov. 2018) |
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Present and explain the supercomputer Marenostrum 4 during
the Open Barcelona festival, Barcelona, Spain. (Oct. 2018) |
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Present and explain the supercomputer Marenostrum 4 during
the EuroMPI Conference, Barcelona, Spain. (Sep. 2018) |
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Presenting the talk "How to get rich by doing a PhD"
at the CONACyT-Catalunya Symposium, Barcelona, Spain. (Jun. 2018) |
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Presenting the talk "What happens when supercomputers get sick"
at the Science Festival, Barcelona, Spain. (Jun. 2018) |
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Presenting the talk "How to get rich by doing a PhD"
at the HiPEAC PhD Symposium, Gottenburg, Sweden. (May. 2018) |
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Presenting the talk "What happens when supercomputers get sick"
at the Pint of Science, Barcelona, Spain. (May. 2018) |
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Presenting the talk "How to get rich by doing a PhD"
at the PhD Symposium at BSC, Barcelona, Spain. (May. 2018) |
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Presenting the talk "How to get rich by doing a PhD"
at the Career Day at BSC, Barcelona, Spain. (Feb. 2018) |
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Present and explain the supercomputer Marenostrum 4 during
the Open Barcelona festival, Barcelona, Spain. (Oct. 2017) |
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Presenting the talk "Supercomputers and high-performance Computing"
to Undergraduate Students at Centroamerica University, Managua, Nicaragua. (Aug. 2015) |
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Talking about Supercomputers and high-performance Computing
on the TV show "Esta Noche", Nicaragua. (Aug. 2015) |
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Languages |
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Native (Teaching Experience) |
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Fluent (DELF, DALF, DEUG) |
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Fluent (IELTS 8.0 - C1) |
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Intermediate (JLPT N5, JLPT N4) |
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Other Unrelated Skills |
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Licensed Private Pilot (About 50 flight hours). |
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Licensed Recreational Boat Skipper in Spain (PER). |
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Licenced (PADI) Open Water Diver (OWD). |
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Olympic Triathlon (Chicago 2013, 2014, 2015,
Barcelona 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) Sprint Triathlon (Barcelona 2021). |
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Certified Emergency First Responder. |
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