Mateo Valero

Mateo Cortés
Born
Mateo Valero Cortés

Spain
OccupationComputer architect
Years active1990–present
OrganisationBarcelona Supercomputing Center

Mateo Valero Cortés is a Spanish computer architect. His research encompasses different concepts within the field of computer architecture, a discipline in which he has published more than 700 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books. Valero has received numerous awards, including the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 2007. As of 2024 he is the director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts the MareNostrum supercomputer.

Early life and education

Mateo Valero Cortés[citation needed] is from Alfamén, Aragon, Spain.[citation needed] At a young age he went to Zaragoza and then Madrid to study, before settling permanently in Barcelona.[citation needed]

Valero graduated in telecommunications engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 1974 and got his Ph.D. in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Career

Valero has combined his academic work with establishing and managing centres for high-performance computing research and technology transfer to businesses.

  • Between 1990 and 1995, he first established and then directed the Barcelona European Parallelism Centre (CEPBA, after its initials in Spanish) to carry out fundamental and applied research in parallel computing.[citation needed]
  • From 1995 to 2000, he was the director of C4, the Catalan Computing and Communications Centre, coordinating activities carried out by CEPBA and the Catalan Supercomputing Centre (CESCA, after its initials in Catalan).[citation needed]
  • From October 2000 until 2004, he was the director of CIRI, the CEPBA-IBM Research Institute on parallel computers.[citation needed]
  • Since May 2004[citation needed] he has been the founder and director of Barcelona Supercomputing Center,[1] and as of 2024 remains director.[2]

At these centres he has worked to drive forward different supercomputing networks both nationally and internationally, such as the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES, after its initials in Spanish), the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the Latin American Supercomputing Network (RISC, after its initials in Spanish).

In 2013 he won a European Research Council Advanced Grant[3] to carry out the RoMoL project on new techniques to build multicore chips and the supercomputers of the future.

Recognition and honours

Individual awards

  • 2024: Premio Innovación y Ciencia (Innovation and Science award) at the Premios Vanguardia[2]
  • 2020: AUTELSI 2020 annual award, organised by the Asociación Española de Usuarios de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (AUTELSI), which recognises excellence and contributions and commitment to information technology[citation needed]
  • 2019: Cénits Award for Research Excellence,[4] given by Extremadura Center for Research, Technological Innovation and Supercomputing to commemorate its 10th anniversary[citation needed]
  • 2018: Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle. This is the highest prize given by Mexican government to a non Mexican person.[5]
  • 2017: MareNostrum 4, chosen as the most beautiful data centre in the world. The award, organised by DCDnews, has been granted by popular vote.[6]
  • 2017: Charles Babbage Award (IEEE Computer Society),[7] for "his contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building on incredibly productive European research environment"[citation needed]
  • 2017: Recognition for his outstanding career in scientific and technological development, given by the University of Guadalajara in Mexico and by the national committee of the ISUM international congress.[8]
  • 2016: Creu de Sant Jordi award[9] (Catalan Government)
  • 2015: Seymour Cray Award (IEEE - Computer Society) for supercomputing "in recognition of seminal contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures"[10]
  • 2015: Innovative Businesses Forum Award in the Innovative Researcher category[11]
  • 2014: Award of Honour (Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association)[12]
  • 2013: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award "for extraordinary leadership of initiatives in high-performance computing research and education"[13]
  • 2009: Goode Award (IEEE - Computer Society), for his contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW architectures[14]
  • 2008: Featured in Hall of Fame (Innovate, Connect, Transform - ICT conference)[citation needed]
  • 2007: Eckert–Mauchly Award (IEEE/ACM;), for "extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering basic new approaches to instruction-level parallelism"[15] (the highest international honour in the field of computer architecture)[citation needed]
  • 2006: National Research Award for contributions to scientific and technological progress in Catalonia (Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation[16]
  • 2006: Leonardo Torres Quevedo Spanish National Research Award for engineering research (Spanish Ministry for Education and Science)[17]
  • 2005: Research Achievements Career Award (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)[citation needed]
  • 2005: Aritmel National Award –Spanish IT Engineer (Spanish Scientific and IT Society)[18]
  • 2004: Engineer of the Year Award (Spanish Telecommunication Engineers Association)[19]
  • 2001: Julio Rey Pastor Spanish National Research Award in Mathematics, Information and Communication Technology (Spanish Ministry for Education and Science)[20]
  • 1997: Rey Jaime I Award for fundamental research (Rey Jaime I Awards Foundation)[21]
  • 1996: Salvà i Campillo Award (Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association)[citation needed]
  • 1994: Narcís Monturiol Award (Government of Catalonia)[22]

Joint awards

  • 2011: First national award for partnership between research centres and businesses, awarded to BSC and IBM for their long and fruitful research collaboration (Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation).[23]
  • 2011 and 2015: Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Award given to Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation)[24][25]
  • 1994: Barcelona City Award in Technology for the work of CEPBA (Barcelona City Council)
  • 1992: Fundación Universidad-Empresa Award for the university department with the best European research projects (Fundación Universidad-Empresa)

Other recognition

Valero is a founding fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering,[26] fellow of the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts,[27] fellow of Academia Europaea[28] and corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Pure Sciences, Physics and Natural Sciences[29] and of the Mexican Academy of Science.[30]

In 2018 he was elected correspondent academic of the Academia de Ingeniería de México, honorary fellow of the Real Academia Europea de Doctores[31] and fellow of the Academia de Gastronomía de Murcia.[32]

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by Chalmers University of Technology,[33] the University of Belgrade, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,[34] the University of Veracruz,[35] the University of Zaragoza,[36] the Complutense University of Madrid,[37] the University of Cantabria[38] and the University of Granada.[39]

He is also a fellow of the IEEE[40] and ACM[41] and an Intel Distinguished Fellow.[citation needed]

He is a member of the external Scientific Advisory Committee of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and benefactor of the graduation of the 2018 promotion from Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza.[42]

As of 2017 he was a member of the committee for the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award.[citation needed]

Valero maintains strong links with his home town, Alfamén, which has bestowed a variety of honours upon him. In 1998 he was chosen as the municipality's "Favourite Son" and in 2005 a local school was given the name CEIP[further explanation needed] Mateo Valero.[citation needed] Aragon has also recognised Valero with a number of honours, such as the Aragon Award – also known as the San Jorge Award – which is considered the most important awarded by the provincial government (2008), and the Special Award for Aragonese Research by the Asociación.[citation needed]

Publications

Valero has published more than 700 papers in computing journals.[43]

References

  1. ^ Valero Cortés, Mateo (2021). La cultura del esfuerzo (in Spanish) (1 ed.). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. doi:10.5821/ebook-9788498809763. ISBN 978-84-9880-976-3. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b Abad, Martí (1 October 2024). "Premios Vanguardia 2024: la opositora rusa Yulia Naválnaya, premio Internacional". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  3. ^ "List of winners of the ERC Advanced Grants 2012 on the European Research Council website" (PDF).
  4. ^ Press release
  5. ^ "México condecora al director del BSC con la máxima distinción a un extranjero". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Tres proyectos españoles galardonados en los DCD Awards". Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Mateo Valero Named Recipient of 2017 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017.
  8. ^ News on the University of Guadalajara and ISUM recognition on University of Guadalajara website
  9. ^ Listado galardonados con el premio Creu de Sant Jordi 2016 en la web de la Generalitat de Catalunya
  10. ^ "Reason for presenting Seymour Cray Award on the IEEE Computer Society website". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  11. ^ "FEI Awards on the Foro de Empresas Innovadoras website". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  12. ^ "Award winners on the 19th Telecommunications Night on the Catalan Telecommunication Engineers Association website".
  13. ^ "Reason for presenting Distinguished Service Award on the ACM Awards website".
  14. ^ "Mateo Valero Wins Goode Award • IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Archived from the original on 27 December 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  15. ^ "Reason for presenting Eckert-Mauchly Award on the ACM Awards website". Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
  16. ^ "List of Catalan National Research Award winners on the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació website".
  17. ^ "Results of the Leonardo Torres Quevedo Spanish National Research Award 2006 in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official State Bulletin)".
  18. ^ "Results decided by the jury in the National IT Awards 2005 on the Spanish Scientific and IT Society website" (PDF).
  19. ^ "Official press release on the selection of the Engineer of the Year 2004 on the Spanish Telecommunication Engineers Association website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
  20. ^ "Results of the Julio Rey Pastor Spanish National Research Award 2001 in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official State Bulletin)".
  21. ^ "List of scientists awarded the Rey Jaime I Award for fundamental research on the Fundación Premios Rey Jaime I website". Archived from the original on 23 September 2009.
  22. ^ "List of Narcís Monturiol Award winners on the Government of Catalonia website". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  23. ^ "List of Catalan National Resesarch Award on the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation website".
  24. ^ "Results of first call for Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditations on the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness website".
  25. ^ "Results of 2015 call for Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditations on the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness website".
  26. ^ "List of Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering (RAI, after its initials in Spanish) academicians on the RAI website".
  27. ^ "List of Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts (RACAB, after its initials in Spanish) permanent academicians on the RACAB website". Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
  28. ^ "List of Academia Europaea academicians on the institution's website".
  29. ^ "List of national corresponding members of the Spanish Royal Academy of Pure Sciences, Physics and Natural Sciences on the academy website".
  30. ^ "List of Mexican Academy of Science engineering academicians on the academy website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2014.
  31. ^ "Mateo Valero, condecorado con la Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca | Real Academia Europea de Doctores". Real Academia Europea de Doctores (in European Spanish). 24 April 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  32. ^ "Mateo Valero: "Las recetas de cocina no son sino algoritmos culturales"". La Verdad (in Spanish). 4 June 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  33. ^ "List of honorary doctors on the University of Chalmers website".
  34. ^ "List of honorary doctors on the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria website".
  35. ^ "List of honorary doctors on the University of Veracruz website". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014.
  36. ^ "List of honorary doctors on the University of Zaragoza website".
  37. ^ "List of honorary doctors on the Complutense University of Madrid website".
  38. ^ "List of honorary doctors on the University of Cantabria website".
  39. ^ "Agreement of the University of Granada faculty meeting".
  40. ^ "Directory of IEEE fellows". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  41. ^ "Directory of ACM fellows". ACM.
  42. ^ "La Universidad San Jorge celebra el acto de graduación de cerca de 325 alumnos de la promoción 2018". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  43. ^ "List of papers by Mateo Valero". DBLP Computer Science Bibliography.