David Carrera
About David Carrera
David Carrera is a Senior Researcher Part Time with extensive experience in academia and industry. He serves as CTO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of NearbyComputing SL and holds an Associate Professor position at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, contributing significantly to research in datacenter optimization and workload orchestration.
Work at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
David Carrera has been associated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center since 2005. He served as an Associate Researcher for ten years until 2015. Subsequently, he held the position of Head of the Datacentric Computing research group from 2016 to 2020. Currently, he works part-time as a Senior Researcher since 2020. His work has involved leading several industrial projects and collaborations with major companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco, focusing on datacenter optimization and workload orchestration.
Education and Expertise
David Carrera studied Computer Science at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he earned both his Master's degree and PhD. His academic journey spanned from 1997 to 2008. His expertise lies in datacenter optimization, workload orchestration, and emerging supercomputing technologies, which he has further explored through various research projects and publications.
Background
David Carrera has a diverse professional background in academia and research. He began his career at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he worked in various capacities, including Undergraduate Researcher, Researcher, and Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2011. He also gained experience as an intern and visiting research scholar at IBM Research in 2006 and 2012, respectively. In addition, he served as an External Collaborator at ESADE Business & Law School in 2017.
Achievements
David Carrera has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, primarily focusing on datacenter optimization and workload orchestration. He received the Agustín de Betancourt prize for young researchers from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018. He has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the Hi-EST project, which aims at the holistic integration of emerging supercomputing technologies, and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the Hi-OMICS project, which investigates the commercial potential of deep learning technologies in computational genomics.