Presenter

Marco Aldinucci is a full professor and the head of the Parallel Computing research group at the University of Torino. He has authored over 150 scientific articles (see Google Scholar) and has received several prestigious awards, including the HPC Advisory Council University Award in 2011, the NVidia Research Award in 2013, the IBM Faculty Award in 2015, and the Autodesk Award in 2021.He served as the Italian delegate on the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking from 2018 to 2021, and he is currently a member of its Research and Innovation Advisory Board (RIAG). Marco has participated in over 15 EU-funded research projects on parallel, cloud, and high-performance computing (HPC), securing more than €10 million in research funds for the University of Torino. He has co-designed and contributed to several programming frameworks and libraries for parallel computing, such as Fastflow, Streamflow, and CAPIO. In 2017, Marco led the design of the HPC4AI laboratory, and in 2020, he became the founding director of the CINI HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory, which brings together researchers from 38 Italian universities. This experience was further applied to FutureHPC, the technological spoke of the Italian National Centre on HPC (ICSC), where he initiated the Software & Integration national laboratory in 2023.