Javier Picorel

Javier Picorel is a former researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the Parallel Systems Architecture Lab (Parsa). His work focuses on computer architecture, distributed systems, and cloud computing, with an emphasis on optimizing storage systems, near-data processing, and high-performance computing. Picorel has contributed to advancements in scalable serverless computing, secure data center architectures, and accelerator design.

His research interests include storage-class memory hierarchies, virtual machine performance optimization, and software-defined systems. Key projects include BlockNDP for block-storage acceleration, IndiLog for stateful serverless systems, and SPARTA for accelerator address translation. He has collaborated extensively with the Parsa group and published widely in top conferences such as ISCA, MICRO, and PACT.