EDUCATION

Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, 2005.
M.S. degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, 1999. 
B.S. degree in Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, 1997.

TEACHING

Full-time associate professor at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) assigned to the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB).

CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY

My current research work focuses on the area of Resource Management Solutions for Modern Distributed Computing Systems. I'm a member of the High Performance Computing Group at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC). I'm also an associate researcher at the Autonomic Systems and eBusiness Platforms research line in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The line's goal is to understand and to create the core of future large-scale Autonomic Middleware. My current research interests are:

• Service-aware VM Management: Manage services efficiently on a federated Cloud scenario, aiming for service elasticity, SLA enforcement, and service high-availability by exploiting virtualization capabilities.
• BLO-driven Management: Manage a Cloud provider in a federated scenario considering several factors in a synergistic way depending on Cloud provider's business-level objectives, including the usage of TREC factors (Trust, Risk, Energy, Cost).
• Energy-aware Management: Manage a Cloud provider aiming to maximize energy and ecological efficiency when dealing with heterogeneous workloads and heterogeneous hardware.