For the first time, the university confers its highest distinction on an expert proposed by the Faculty of Engineering
The director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Mateo Valero, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Universidad Autónoma de Chile. This is the first time that this university grants the highest honorary designation that a university awards to outstanding people in the academic and professional fields to an expert proposed by the Faculty of Engineering.
The Rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Teodoro Ribera, presented the diploma with the recognition to Valero, of whom he highlighted his career as a researcher and his contributions in the field of technology transfer “which make him worthy of this outstanding distinction”.
The investiture ceremony held last Thursday, which included a keynote talk by Valero on supercomputing in which he presented the research being carried out at the BSC, can be viewed on the YouTube channel of the Universidad Autónoma de Chile.
This is the thirteenth Honoris Causa recognition received by Mateo Valero. He joins those of Chalmers University of Technology, University of Belgrade, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universidad Veracruzana, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Cantabria, Universidad de Murcia, Doctor Honoris Causa elect of Universidad de Granada, and Doctor Honoris Causa of CINVESTAV, Universidad Cristóbal Colón de México and Universidad de Chile.
About Mateo Valero
The director of BSC holds the three most important awards in the field of supercomputing worldwide: the Eckert-Mauchly prize in Computer Architecture, awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as the Seymour Cray prize in supercomputing and the Charles Babbage Prize in parallel computing, 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 ten scientific academies.
For his significant contributions, he is one of the most important contributors to Computer Architecture in Europe over the last 25 years. He has published approximately 700 papers, has collaborated in the organisation of more than 300 international conferences and has given more than 600 lectures.
He is a favourite son of his village, Alfamén (Zaragoza) and in 2005, the local school was named CEIP Mateo Valero in his honour.
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