David Carrera

David Carrera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture at the Faculty of Informatics of Barcelona (FIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and serves as the head of the Data-Centric Computing group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). His research focuses on holistic integration of emerging supercomputing technologies, infrastructure management and optimization for data-intensive workloads, and collaboration with global industry leaders in Computer Science.

• Areas of expertise include task placement strategies, performance modeling for heterogeneous workloads, and data location strategies for data analytics.
• He founded the start-up NearbyComputing SL (2018), specializing in orchestration of 5G and IoT services.
• His work emphasizes technology transfer and industrial collaboration.

Scientific Awards & Grants:

• Agustín de Betancourt y Molina Medal (2018)
• ERC Starting Grant (HiEST project, 2014)
• ICREA Acadèmia Award (2015)
• ERC Proof of Concept (Hi-OMICS, 2017)
• MIT-Spain "la Caixa" Seed Fund (2018)