Anna Queralt Calafat

Anna Queralt Calafat is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), affiliated with the Department of Services and Information Systems Engineering at the Barcelona School of Informatics. Her research focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC), distributed systems, and data governance, with notable contributions in knowledge graphs, cloud-edge continuum management, and parallel workflow optimization. She leads projects funded by European and national grants, including contributions to strategic research agendas like ETP4HPC. Queralt has supervised doctoral students like Jonathan Marti and Rizkallah Touma, and her work spans over 100 publications in top venues such as Future Generation Computer Systems and the International Semantic Web Conference. She actively participates in conference committees and has received a Best Student Paper Award for collaborative research.

Her educational background includes a degree in Computer Engineering and a doctorate in Software. She is part of research groups inSSIDE and DTIM, advancing areas like HPC integration with big data analytics. Key projects include automated data lifecycle management and fog-to-cloud distributed processing. Her work bridges theoretical models with practical systems like DataClay and PyCOMPSs, emphasizing scalable and efficient computing solutions.