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Reasons I am running for the 2025-2027 Board of Governors
I have been working in the High-Performance Computing field for the past 30 years.
I have been an active IEEE member.
As a professor of the Department of Computer Science of the University of São Paulo (USP) and an expert in Parallel & Distributed Computing and Agile Software Development, I have led different groups of graduate students and professors from a wide range of top-tier institutions in Brazil and in other parts of the world.
I am the Head of the FAPESP thematic project entitled "Trends in high-performance computing, from resource management to new computer architectures."
I am ready to represent our colleagues of many cultures and backgrounds:
I speak Portuguese (my mother language), English, and French fluently and can also communicate in Spanish and Italian.
I lived for five years in France and one in the United States.
With this background, I can work effectively with others - including people from different cultures - pursuing new ideas and taking initiative.
More recently, I have been involved in initiatives that include minorities in Computer Science, for instance, helping to create a hackathon for women in Brazil and supporting a Python course for deaf people. This would make me ready to contribute to and support diversity.
As a member of the Board of Governors, I would seek to:
foster entrepreneurship and advocate for knowledge and technology transfer, focusing on publicizing success cases. As society has become increasingly connected to Computer Science, including Artificial intelligence, HPC, and other technologies, we have more resources to go from an idea to a product;
stimulate collaboration opportunities among conference organizers, IEEE CS members, and research institutions, and
promote educational content creation. CS is changing quickly, and new recent topics such as cybersecurity, heterogeneity in HPC, and generative AI need good teaching references.
In addition, it is crucial to give voice to researchers worldwide, including Latin America. Being Brazilian yet with a solid connection to North America and Western Europe, one of my roles, if elected, would be to contribute with new perspectives and reach more researchers from the same region to the IEEE CS, bringing diversity and inclusion.
With this, I would be honored to represent my colleagues and partners, bringing their ideas and suggestions to boost community diversity. These plans will help support the IEEE CS and its mission as they aim to advance the theory, practice, and application of computing technology while simultaneously helping humanity progress through technology.
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