Rosa Maria Badia

Rosa Maria Badia is a Professor at the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the manager of the Workflows and Distributed Computing group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She is also the principal investigator of the EuroHPC eFlows4HPC project, focusing on the integration of HPC, Big Data, and Machine Learning through advanced workflow systems.

Her research interests lie in high-performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, and task-based programming models. She is a key contributor to the development of COMPSs/PyCOMPSs, a framework enabling efficient parallel execution of complex workflows across heterogeneous computing platforms.

Her work has significantly influenced the field of high-performance computing, as recognized by her receipt of the HPDC Achievement Award 2021—the first such award given to a researcher based in Europe. She has also been honored with the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2019 and the DonaTIC Award 2019 in the Academic/Researcher category.

Dr. Badia has published nearly 200 papers in international conferences and journals and has been actively involved in European Commission-funded projects and industry collaborations. She is a member of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence and has contributed to the BDEC international initiative.

• HPDC Achievement Award 2021
• Euro-Par Achievement Award 2019
• DonaTIC Award 2019 (Academic/Researcher category)

She mentors researchers within her group at BSC and leads a team focused on advancing programming models for complex computing environments. Her leadership extends to major European projects and international research communities, shaping the future of scalable computing systems.