Presenter

Pedro Valero-Lara is a Senior Computer Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His experience and interest are focused on high-performance, parallel, and scientific computing/programming. He is a recipient of an IEEE-CS Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in HPC and multiple best paper awards in IEEE/ACM venues (SC; HPEC; HPC Asia), among other awards. Pedro has played a key role in creating and maintaining some of the most influential software artifacts used worldwide. He held various leadership positions; founder and lead of the Linear Algebra and Math Libraries team at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and lead developer of the Cray LibSci-ACC library at HPE-Cray. He received his PhD from the University Complutense of Madrid in 2015.