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Research Interests: Computer Architecture, Cognitive Computing Systems, Graphics Processors.

Biography:

Antonio Gonzalez received his Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain, in 1989. He joined the faculty of the Computer Architecture Department of UPC in 1986 and became a Full Professor in 2002. He was the founding director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center from 2002 to 2014.

His research has focused on computer architecture, compilers and parallel processing, with a special emphasis on processor microarchitecture and code generation. He has published over 400 papers, has given over 130 invited talks, holds 53 patents, has advised 43 PhD theses in these areas. His H-index based on Google Scholar is 62.

Antonio has been the principal investigator of over 30 research projects, and is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant. He has a long track record of innovations through technology transfers of his research results to commercial products, especially microprocessors and computing systems in general.

Antonio has served as associate editor for five IEEE and ACM journals, program chair for ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ICS and ISPASS, general chair for MICRO and HPCA, and member of the program committee for more than 140 symposia.

Antonio’s awards include the award to the best student in computer engineering in Spain graduating in 1986, the 2001 Rosina Ribalta award as the advisor of the best PhD project in Information Technology and Communications, the 2008 Duran Farrell award for research in technology, the 2009 Aritmel National Award of Informatics to the Computer Engineer of the Year, the 2013 “King Jaime I Award” in New Technologies, and the 2014, 2019 and 2024 ICREA Academia award. He was inducted into the “IEEE/ACM MICRO Hall of Fame” in 2000, the “IEEE HPCA Hall of Fame” in 2005 and the “ACM/IEEE ISCA Hall of Fame” in 2013. Antonio is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM.