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Prof. Nacho J. Navarro is faculty member at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. From 1983 he joined the Computer Architecture Department (Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors) at UPC, and in 2005 the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where he is actually the manager of the Accelerators for High Performance Computing group. Nacho Navarro received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UPC in 1991. Since 1994, he is Associate Professor at the Computer Architecture Department at UPC, where he teaches on operating systems and runtime support for new parallel computer architectures. He organizes the Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems summer school (PUMPS), every July since 2010. His current interests include: GPGPU computing, multi-core computer architectures, hardware accelerators, dynamic reconfigurable logic support, memory management and runtime optimizations, operating systems for multi-cores, power management and resource management in heterogeneous environments, and also tracing and visualization tools.

His work has been published in international conferences in computer architecture and operating systems (ICS, ASPLOS, MICRO, IPDPS, ICPP, PACT, DAC, HiPEAC, EWOMP, ISPASS and USENIX). Nacho is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM and HiPEAC NOE. He has served at the PC of ICS, SC, ISCA, CGO, INPAR, GPGPU, TPDS, TACO.

Since 2001, he also holds a Visiting Research Professor position at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where he has been doing research in optimization of runtime systems for reconfigurable embedded architectures and GPU accelerators (Wen-mei Hwu IMPACT group, GSRC project).

Nacho has served on the board of the HiPEAC EU Network of Excellence, the Spanish Association of Informatics (ATI, Spain) and the Spanish UNIX Users Group. He was researcher at the European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA). He was also co-founder of the first Spanish Internet provider Goya Servicios Telematicos, now under EUNET. Currently, he is co-PI of the EU Teraflux project at BSC, and the managing director of the BSC/UPC NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence.