This is the twelfth "honoris causa" awarded to the Director of the BSC
The Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Mateo Valero, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Chile, recognizing him as a global leader in computer architecture and a pioneering engineer in the field of supercomputing
The investiture ceremony took place this Wednesday at the d'Etigny Auditorium of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Chile in Santiago. The event was presided over by the university's rector, Rosa Devés Alessandri, and featured Valero's keynote speech titled "Scientific Cooperation between Latin America and the European Union."
This Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chile is the twelfth such distinction awarded to Mateo Valero. It joins those conferred by Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Belgrade, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the University of Veracruz, the University of Zaragoza, Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Cantabria, the University of Murcia, the University of Granada (Doctor Honoris Causa elect), and CINVESTAV and Cristóbal Colón University in Mexico.
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 considered to be 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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