Jan. 23, 2023 — Mateo Valero, director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), is receiving two honors in Cuba this week.

With the first, he will be appointed Visiting Professor at the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas. The second honor will be his election as a corresponding member to the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

This last appointment is awarded to people linked to scientific-technical activity with relevant results and proven links and contributions to Cuban science. Along with Valero, 16 other individuals will receive this recognition on January 26th during the Academy’s international symposium “Science, Ethics and Humanism in the Struggle for Social Justice, Sustainable Development and Peace.”

This brings to 10 the number of academies of which the BSC’s director is a member. Valero says he feels “highly praised by these two awards, which reaffirm BSC’s long-standing collaboration with Latin American countries in the field of supercomputing. We have shared many projects and we will continue to work together to advance science and technology and its free uses in Europe and Latin America.”

As part of these awards, the BSC director will give two talks on supercomputing. Tomorrow at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computing of the Central University “Marta Abreu” de las Villas, and on January 26th, he will participate in the round table organized by the Cuban Academy of Sciences on “Open Science and Ethics in Defense of Humanity.”

About Mateo Valero

The director of BSC holds the three important global awards: the Eckert-Mauchly Prize in Computer Architecture, awarded by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), as well as the Seymour Cray Prize in Supercomputing and the Charles Babbage Prize in Parallel Computers, both awarded by the IEEE.

He has also been awarded two national research prizes (Julio Rey Pastor, in 2001, and Leonardo Torres Quevedo, in 2006) and is a member of nine scientific academies.

For his significant contributions, Valero is considered one of the most important contributors to computer architecture in the last 25 years. He has published approximately 700 articles, has collaborated in the organization of more than 300 international conferences and has given more than 600 lectures.

Mateo has 10 Honoris Causa awards. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Chalmers University of Technology, University of Belgrade, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Veracruz, University of Zaragoza, University Complutense of Madrid, University of Cantabria, Doctor Honoris Causa elect of the University of Granada and Doctor Honoris Causa of CINVESTAV.

Further information can be found here.

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Source: BSC-CNS