Author

Dr. Peña is currently 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 also holds a secondary appointment as Teaching and Research Staff at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow. He currently holds an ERC Consolidator Grant. Among others, he is a recipient of the 2017 IEEE TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing, and ACM/IEEE Sr. Member. He is involved in the organization and steering committees of several conferences and workshops such as SC, IEEE Cluster, or AsHES. His research interests in the area of runtime systems and programming models for high performance computing include resource heterogeneity and communications.