Education

• PhD (May 2007)

                Thesis Title: Genetic Optimization for large join queries.

                Advisor/s: Larriba Pey, Josep and Perez Casany, Marta.

                Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

• Master in Computer Science (June 2001). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

• Leadership Development Program (2013-2014). CA Technologies.

Professional Experience

• • Beawre (February 2019 - today)

    • CEO & Scientific Director (February 2019-today)

  • CA Technologies (June 2011 - January 2019)

    • Vice President, Strategic Research (June 2011-January 2019)

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (September 2003 - June 2011)

    • Researcher and Deputy Director of DAMA-UPC (Until 2011)

    • Associate Professor (Tenured) (September 2006 – June 2011)

    • Assistant Professor (September 2003 – August 2006)

Founded Start-ups/Spin-offs

• • GivMe5 Digital SL

    • Co-founder of the company.

    • Founded in 2019

  • Beawre Digital SL

    • Co-founder of the company and first CEO.

    • Founded in 2019

  • Sparsity Technologies S.L.

    • Co-founder of the company.

    • Founded in 2010

Leadership in R&D Projects

• DYNABIC: Dynamic business continuity and response of critical systems against advanced cyber-physical threats (Grant agreement 101070455) Horizon Europe. HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01-01. 2022-2025. (549.500€). Role: Principal Investigator, Exploitation Leader. 

• Be-Riskless: Inteligencia Artificial para el Control Continuo de Riesgos en Procesos del Sector de la Construcción (Grant agreement 787034) Programa Neotec 2021 (id: SNEO-20211182). 2022-2023. (387.647 €). Role: Principal Investigator. 

• PDP4E: Methods and tools for GDPR compliance through Privacy and Data Protection Engineering (Grant agreement 787034) H2020-DS-SC7-2017. May 2018-April 2021. (607.331 €). Role: PI representing Beawre and the WP leader of the WP on risk management. 

• ALOHA: software framework for runtime-Adaptive and secure deep Learning On Heterogeneous Architectures (Grant agreement 780788) H2020-ICT-2016-2017. January 2018- December 2020. (723.793 €). Role: Leader of the team that got the project granted in collaboration with an international consortium.

• ENACT: Trustworthy and Smart Actuation in IoT systems (Grant agreement 780351) H2020-IOT-2017. January 2018-March 2021. (695.750 €). Role: PI representing Beawre.

• Science2Society: Improving university, industry and society interfaces to boost the throughput capacity of Europe's innovation stakeholders (Grant agreement 693651). H2020-INSO-2015. 2016-2019. (111.875 €). Role: PI representing CA Technologies.

• BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data (Grant agreement 642963). H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014. January 2015-December 2018. (247.873 €). Role: PI representing CA Technologies.

• MUSA: MUlti-cloud Secure Applications (Grant agreement 644429) ICT-07-2014. 2015-2018. (495.000 €). Role: PI representing CA Technologies. WP Leader developing an agile risk management tool for cloud service selection in multicloud environments focused on security aspects

• LeanBigData: Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics (Grant agreement 619606). FP7-ICT-2013-11. 2013-2016. (825.000 €). Role: PI representing CA Technologies. WP Leader developing an root cause analysis tool.

• MODAClouds: MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds (Grant agreement 318484). FP7-ICT-2011-8. October 2012-September 2015. (921.052 €). Role: PI representing CA Technologies and WP Leader developing a risk-based tool for cloud service selection in multicloud environments. 

• Research Collaboration Agreement with CIT-UPC. June 2011-September 2012. (191.618 €). Role: PI representing CA Technologies.

• Convenio de Colaboración técnica Ericsson-UPC. Ericsson Spain. November 2010-June 2011. (30.000 €). Role: Co-leadership with Prof. Ricard Gavaldà, representing UPC.

• Research Agreement for Access Methods for Hybrid In- and Out-of-Core DBMSs. IBM. January 2009-December 2010. (48.000 US$). Role: PI representing UPC.

Experience as an Advisor

PhD Thesis Advised

• Model Driven Root Cause Analysis and Reliability Enhancement for Large Distributed Computing Systems

  • Master Student: Michal Zasadzinski

  • Defense date: 15th Oct 2018

• Supporting Decentralized Collaborative Processes in the Digital Transformation

  • Master Student: David Sánchez Charles

  • Defense date: 18th Sep 2017

Master Thesis Advised

• Cloud service data collection for cloud service selection

  • Master Student: Maryam Pashmi

  • Defended: October 2015

• In-Mermoy and On-disk Hybrid Relational Database Management Systems

  • Master Student: Joan Guisado Gámez

  • Defended: February 2010

• Overlapping Comunity Search in Very Large Graphs

  • Master Student: Arnau Padrol Sureda

  • Defended: June 2009

• DEX: High-Performance Graph Databases

  • Master Student: Norbert Martínez Bazán

  • Defended: September 2008

• Heuristic Optimization for Efficient Data Management in Graph Databases

  • Master Student: Mario Alejandro Sánchez Martínez

  • Defended: July 2008

Experience as a Reviewer/Evaluator

Participation in EU Evaluations

• Panel expert in the FET program (FP7, H2020)

  • Reviewer in the FET PROACTIVE program in H2020 (since March 2014)

  • Reviewer in the FET XTrack program in FP7 (since January 2013)

  • Reviewer in the FET Open program in FP7 (since December 2011)

Member of PhD Thesis Defense Tribunals

• Thesis: Crowdsensing-driven Route Optimisation Algorithms for Smart Urban Mobility

  • PhD candidate: Petar Mrazoviç

  • Date: October 22nd 2018

• Thesis: Query Expansion by Relying on the Structure of Knowledge Bases 

  • PhD candidate: Joan Guisado Gámez

  • Date: September 28th 2017

• Thesis: Scalable Community Detection for Social Networks

  • PhD candidate: Arnau Prat Pérez

  • Date: March 3rd 2016

Reviews in Conferences and Journals

• Reviewer for the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (DKE) (since February 2012)

• Participation in International Conference Program Committees

  • JIT RE 2017: 2nd workshop on just-in-time requirements engineering

  • ICDE 2015

  • MICAS 2014

  • MICAS 2013 (in conjunction with SYNASC 2013)

  • ASWEC 2013

  • EDBT 2012 (Industrial Track)

  • GDM 2011 (Graph Databases)

  • SIASP 2010

  • HPCC 2009 (Database Application and Data Mining Track)

  • CSE 2009 (Database and Data Mining Track)

International Experience

Stays in Non-University Centers and Labs

• IBM Toronto Labs

  • Stay at the IBM Toronto Labs 2001 – 2004 (a total amount of time of 11 months)

  • Genetic Optimization for Very Large Databases

  • Improving DBMS Engine operations using bit filters

  • IBM technical advisor: Calisto Zuzarte

• Barcelona Yahoo! Research

  • Stay at the Barcelona Yahoo! Research Labs Summer 2007

  • Word recommendation for keyword search engines, based on the manipulation of very large graphs

  • Yahoo! hosting researcher: Ricardo Baeza-Yates

• Laboratoire d'Informatique, Robotique et Microélectronique de Montpellier

  • Stay at LIRMM (INRIA) - October 2009- March 2010

  • Massive Distributed Graphs on Shared-Nothing Architectures

  • INRIA hosting researcher: Patrick Valduriez

Organization of International Events

• Industry Chair at BPM 2017

• Industrial track chair of MobiCASE

• PAVLAD: ACM First International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity for Very Large Datasets. In conjunction with CIKM 2009. Hong Kong, China. November 6, 2009.

  • Role: General Chair

  • Link to ACM site

• UIM-GDB: First University-Industry Meeting on Graph Databases. February 7-8, 2011.

  • Role: Meeting Organizer

Recognition

Awards

• • Selected Top 5 Construction Risk Management Startups in 2022. 5 Top Construction Risk Management Startups | StartUs Insights (startus-insights.com) 

  • Selected in the Top 50 ConTech Startups in 2020 (Preparation of all materials made by me). This list includes the 50 most promising new solutions from the 2020 construction ecosystem and the cities of the future. Beawre selected in the Top 50 ConTech Startups of 2020 

  • Most promising start-up in the world at the CEMEX Ventures Construction Startup Competition 2020 (sponsored by CEMEX, Ferrovial, Vinci and other companies). Meet the Winners: Construction Startup Competition 2020 | CEMEX Ventures (Preparation for the competition including creation of materials made by me)

  • Beawre selected out of more than 500 candidates as one of the Top-10 most promising start-ups in the world at the SIA AppChallenge in 2020 (Singapore Airlines) (Preparation for the competition including creation of materials made by me)

  • Special Recognition Award for outstanding employee in the Office of the CTO at CA Technologies, 2016

    • This recognition award is truly unique as only a few select employees were nominated and approved out of 12000.

  • Honorary Professor of Universidad San Martín de Porres (Lima) (August 2015) Link

  • CA Patent Innovation Program IQ Award

    • Award to the best patent idea at CA worldwide in Q3 - FY17. (January 2017)

    • Award to the best patent idea at CA worldwide in Q4 - FY16. (January 2016)

    • Award to the best patent idea at CA worldwide in Q2 - FY14. (November 2013)

  • IBM Faculty Award 2009

    • To support research in the area of Autonomic Memory Management for Relations DBMS.

  • CINC Award 2009

    • Award to the best business idea in the framework of the 9th Business Ideas Competition of the Department of Innovation, Universities and Industry of Generalitat de Catalunya. (CINC: Centre Internacional de Negocis de Catalunya). Awarded candidates: Josep Lluis Larriba, Victor Muntés Mulero, Norbert Martínez Bazán and Pere Baleta.

Other Merits

• Member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence (January 2015-January 2019)

• Chair of EAI Innovation Academy Coordination Committee (European Alliance for Innovation)

  • Editor in Chief of the IAM INNOVATOR magazine (EAI)

• Certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA) (2016)

Invited Talks and Courses

• Speaker at the panel discussion moderated by Paco Gómez, Director of Barcelona ConTech Hub. "Contribución de las startups ConTech a la innovación tecnológica en el sector de la construcción (youtube.com)", February 26th 2024, Barcelona.

• Invited speaker at Demo Day LaSalle 2023 on October 6th 2023, Barcelona.

• Invited speaker at Horizon Europe Infoday Catalunya Cluster 3 - Seguretat civil per a la societat. ACCIÓ - Agència per la Competitivitat de l'Empresa (gencat.cat) on July 7th 2023.  https://youtu.be/L0ro37OQo-A?si=SFsCV2gOEbK3BV6E&t=5094 

• Invited speaker at Corporate Day-startups Lanzadera 2023, July 6th 2023, Valencia, Spain.

• Speaker at the panel discussion moderated by Luis Amorim, Head of Open Innovation at Ferrovial Construction "Challenges startups encounter when developing partnerships with General Contractors (GCs)" at the South Summit 2023 in Madrid. 

• Invited speaker at Contech Startup Forum 2023 at REBUILD 2023, March 28-30 2023, Madrid. 

• Invited speaker at the International Webinar on Civil Engineering and Architectural Design 2022. Talk title: "De-risking construction inefficiency through continuous risk management at project level". Virtual event. 28th January 2022.

• 4-hours training session about innovation and accelerator programs in the BigStorage Training School in Nantes, France. June 26th, 2018.

• Built-to-Change Summit. June 2018. Speaker presenting part of CA Technologies' worldwide strategy. (From 28' 54'')

• Master Class "Handling Complexity in Secure Multi-Cloud Applications - Controlling Risk, Making Decisions and Remaining Agile… Possible?" at BigStorage Training School in Heraklion. July 2017.

• Speaker in nomination ceremony to become Honorary Professor at Universidad San Martín in Lima, Perú. August 2015.

• Invited speaker at CA Technologies Growth Market Event in Lima, Perú. Presented a vision on how technology is going to evolve in the next 2-5 years. August 2015.

• Invited speaker and panelist in Software Engineering Symposium organized by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. August 2015.

• Invited speaker at CA Technologies Growth Market Event in Medellín. Presented a vision on how technology is going to evolve in the next 2-5 years. August 2015.

• Invited speaker at Fòrum CFIS 2014. Octubre 22, 2014.

• Invited speaker and participant at Shonan Meeting: “Chances of Crowdsourcing”. Shonan Village, Japan. November 18-21, 2013.

• Innovator of the month talk at the event "22@ Breakfast" organized by the 22@Network: "A crowdsourced love story" October 17, 2013.

• Invited industrial speaker. Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing. May 2013, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

• Invited speaker at CitiSen 2012. “Crowd Computing: Making the Crowd Valuable for Industry”. https://sites.google.com/site/citisen2012/invited-talk

• Muntes, V. & Paladini, P. (2012) “Crowd Localization: bringing the crowd in the post-editing process”. Presentation at Translation in the 21st Century – Eight Things to Change, Paris, May 31 – June 1 2012

• Course "Data Stream Processing and Mining", Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia. July, 2011.

• "The Next Database Generation: Managing Massive Graphs Efficiently", Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia. July 2011.

• "Graph Stream Processing and Mining", Ericsson Spain. Madrid, Spain. February 2011.

• “Graph Partitioning Strategies for Efficient BFS in Shared-Nothing Parallel Systems”. INRIA/LIRMM (Université de Montpellier 2). Montpellier, France. March 2010.

• “Exploiting Pipeline Interruptions for Efficient Memory Allocation”, Microsoft Labs. Aliso Viejo, CA, USA. March 2010.

• “DEX: A Massive Graph Data Management System”. INRIA/LIRMM (Université de Montpellier 2). Montpellier, France. October 2009.

• “Bitmap Indexing for Very Large Graphs”, IBM Almaden Research Labs. Almaden, CA, USA. October 2008.

• “Genetic Optimization for Large Join Queries”, IBM Bangalore Labs. Bangalore, India. 2007.

• “Course on Internals on Database Management Systems”, University of Reading, UK. May 2003