Dr. Osman S. Ünsal (Computer Architecture for Parallel Paradigms Research Group co-Manager, Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Osman S. Unsal is co-manager of the Computer Architecture for Parallel Paradigms research group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His research interests include Computer Architecture, High Performance Computing, Reliability, Low-power and Novel Architectures. He has 11 patents and 250 publications in peer-reviewed Journals, Conferences and Workshops. He was the technical lead of the VELOX, Rethink Big, ParaDIME, and Legato EU projects and is participating in the following ongoing EU research projects: European Processor Initiative, EUPilot, and Eprocessor. Before joining BSC, he was a Senior Researcher at Intel Microprocessor Research Labs. He has B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees from Istanbul Technical University, Brown University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst; all in Computer Engineering.
Prof. William Jalby (University Paris SACLAY/UVSQ, LI PARAD Laboratory)
William Jalby started his career first at INRIA as a researcher then joined University of Illinois (CEDAR project), got appointed Associate Professor at the University of RENNES I before joining the University of Versailles as a Full Professor. His research interests are focusing on memory system analysis and optimization, compilers and parallelism. Most of his research has been carried out in close collaboration with hardware suppliers (Fujitsu, Bull and INTEL), tools developers (JSC, TUD, University of Oregon, CAPS Entreprise) and application developers both from research (CEA, EDF, CNRS) and Industry (ESI, MAGMAsoft, Dassault, GNS, RECOM, …). Since 2004, he is the director of a joined Lab (ITACA) between CEA DAM and UVSQ focusing on code optimization techniques. In 2010, he got appointed as CTO of the Exascale Computing Research Lab and he is leading ECR research activities.
Anders Dam Jensen (Executive Director, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking)
Anders Dam Jensen is the Executive Director for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking since September 2020. This appointment is the continuation of a lifelong interest in supercomputers, starting from his time at the Technical University of Denmark, from which he holds a Master of Science Degree and a Master of Business Administration. After spending the first part of his career working in engineering and pioneering IEEE802.11 wireless network technology with Symbol Technologies, Anders joined Cargolux Airlines International as Director IT and was instrumental in the spinoff of the Cargolux IT department into CHAMP Cargosystems S.A. In 2011, Anders became Director ICTM for NATO, and took on responsibility for all Information and IT services as well as one of the largest classified networks in Europe.
