Josep Lluis Berral Garcia

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Biography

Josep Lluís Berral received his Engineering degree in Informatics (2007), M.Sc. in Computer Architecture (2008), and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2013) at BarcelonaTech-UPC. He works in high-performance data-analytics and machine learning on cloud environments at the Department of Computer Architecture @ Barcelona-Tech (DAC-UPC) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He is the manager of the “Computing Resources Orchestration and Management for AI” group (UPC + BSC). He is currently collaborating in European projects and private projects with IBM and Petrobras, and previously with Intel, Databricks, Microsoft and Cisco. He did research at the “High-Performance Computing” group and at the “Relational Algorithms, Complexity and Learning” group at UPC. He has also been at the DarkLab group at Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) in 2012, also in IBM Watson Labs (Yorktown, NY) in 2019. He was awarded with a Juan de la Cierva research fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy in 2016. He is an IEEE and ACM member.

Education

  • Ph.D. studies at Technical University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTech (UPC), 2013
  • Degree on Advanced Studies at Computer Architecture Department at BarcelonaTech (DAC – UPC), 2009
  • M.Sc. in Computer Architecture, Networks and Systems, at Computer Architecture Department (DAC – UPC), 2008
  • Degree in Computer Science (5 year-long study program) at Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB – UPC), 2007

Research

Current Participation in Research Projects

  • VITAMIN-V, "Virtual Environment and Tool-boxing for Trustworthy Development of RISC-V based Cloud Services". EU-HORIZON, GA.101093062.
  • SECURED, "Scaling Up secure Processing, Anonymization and generation of Health Data". EU-HORIZON, GA.101095717.
  • NEARDATA, "Extreme Near-Data Processing Platform". EU-HORIZON, GA.101092644.
  • CLOUDSKIN, "Adaptive virtualization for AI-enabled Cloud-edge Continuum". EU-HORIZON, GA.101092646.
  • CLOUDSTARS, "Cloud Open Source Research Mobility Network". EU-HORIZON MSCA, GA.101086248.
  • CALLISTO, "Copernicus Artificial Intelligence Services and data fusion with other distributed data sources and processing at the edge to support DIAS and HPC infrastructures", EU-H2020, GA.101004152.
  • INCISIVE, "A multimodal AI-based toolbox and an interoperable health imaging repository for the empowerment of imaging analysis related to the diagnosis, prediction and follow-up of cancer", EU-H2020, GA.952179."
  • MEEP, "The MareNostrum Experimental Exascale Platform", EU-H2020, GA.946002.
  • IBM-BSC, "Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Systems; Cognitive Cloud Ecosystem", Joint research agreement between IBM and BSC. SoW1-Cloud.

Former Participation in Projects (at BSC)

  • FEM IoT, (2020-2022) "Agrupament de Tecnologies Emergents IoT", EU Regional Development RIS3CAT/FEDER (GA.001-P-001662).
  • DM-CANCER, (2016-2022) "Data Mining on Carcinogen Data", in collaboration with the Life Sciences Department at BSC, partially financed by ICREA. Continued in EU-Horizon NEARDATA.
  • PATRONS@BSC, (2016-2022) "Emission Models and Patterns through Machine Learning Analytics", partially financed by Severo Ochoa Programme (GA SEV-2015-0493), in collaboration with the Earth Sciences Department at BSC.
  • DBR-BigData, (2017-2021) "Benchmarking on Big Data Analytics". BSC-DBR Agreement.
  • Hi-EST, (2015 - 2020) "Holistic Integration of Emerging Supercomputing Technologies", European Research Council (GA 639595), at the DataCentric Computing Group at BSC.
  • LIGHTHOUSE (2015 - 2017): "Cisco-Lighthouse, Fog Computing on Smart-Cites", BSC-Cisco Agreement.
  • ALOJA & ALOJA-ML (2014 - 2017), Hadoop Benchmark Repository and Performance Analysis Tools, at BSC-Microsoft RC.
  • CAP-VII, (2016 - 2019) "Computación de Altas Prestaciones" (TIN2015-65316-P jan/16-dec/19).
  • CAP-VI (2013 - 2015), "Computación de Altas Prestaciones" (TIN2012-34557, jan/13-dec/15).

Main Research Lines

Memberships

He is member of the IEEE, and member of the ACM and the SIGKDD.

Teaching

I am lecturer of AI, Data Centers and Data Analytics related subjects at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), at the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB). I have also been at the Spanish National Open University (UNED) and the Valencia International University (VIU). I also make courses on "Big Data and Machine Learning platforms", one of the most relevants at the PRACE Advanced Training Courses from the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe international association, in which the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is member.
 
Current Education Projects
  • Intel-AI, "AI and Predictive Analytics in Data-Center Environments", awarded by the Intel Academic Education Mindshare Initiative for AI.