Conferencistas
Agustina Bucella
Agustina Buccella, PhD in Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires. Year 2009) and Master of Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires. Year 2005) .
She is Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, where she is teaching undergraduate courses in the area of databases and directing several thesis.
As for research, she is a Research Assistant in CONICET since 2013 and currently heads the research project "Domain Oriented Reuse" within the Research Program 04 / F001 "Software Development Based on Reuse" belonging to the School of Computing. She runs several fellows and doctoral thesis in the framework of this project.
She is a member of GIISCO (Software Engineering Research Group, http://giisco.uncoma.edu.ar) and participates as a professor teaching graduate courses in the National University of Austral Patagonia, Santa Cruz.
Alejandra Cechich
Director of the Comahue Software Engineering Research Group (GIISCo – http://giisco.uncoma.edu.ar), professor at the National University of Comahue and Director of the Department of Systems Engineering.
Her research interests include development based on reuse, software quality and conceptual modeling.
She has been visiting professor at the EMOOSE program (European Master in Object-Oriented Software Engineering and Technologies) of the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France (2004-2009) and PhD program in Computer Science at the National University of La Plata (2005 -2015).
She received the European Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain and Masters in Computer Science from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina.
Claude Tadonki
Senior Researcher in High Performance Computing & Applied Mathematics
Mines ParisTech / CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique (FRANCE)
Email: tadonki@cri.ensmp.fr / claude.tadonki@mines-paristech.fr
Short Biography
Claude Tadonki (M) is a senior researcher and lecturer at the MINES ParisTech Institute (Paris/France) since 2011. He holds a PhD and a Habilitation degree in computer science from University of Rennes and from Paris-Sud University respectively . After six years of cutting-edge research in operational research and theoretical computer science at the University of Geneva, he relocated to France to work for EMBL, University of Paris-Sud, LAL-CNRS and then MINES ParisTech. His main research topics included High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Operational Research, Matrix Computation, Combinatorial Algorithm and Complexity, Mathematical Programming, Scientific and Technical Programming, Automatic Code Transformations. Claude Tadonki has worked at several laboratories and universities, has initiated various scientific projects and national/international collaborations, has given significant number of CS courses in different contexts including industries. He is an active member of well established scientific corporations and reviewer of high-impact international journals and top-rank conferences, and he has published numerous papers in journals and conferences. Claude Tadonki has been very active in collaborations with South America countries. Indeed, he was the french coordinator of France/Brazil/Chile STIC-AmSud project BioCloud (2012-2014), and he has co-organized several HPC conferences, co-supervised joint France-Brazil PhDs, given several courses and seminars in Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Chile, to name a few for that specific context. He has participated and co-organized number of HPC conferences and meetings around the world.
Title of the keynote: High Performance Computing Trends and Challenges
Summary of the keynote:
High Performance Computing (HPC) has been on the spotlight over the last decade, driven by users clamor for more powerful systems and more exciting applications. Significant technical changes have occurred indeed, and noteworthy improvements have been done at various levels and directions, thus pushing the limit of both standard computers and supercomputers. This phenomenon has even changed the rules of scientific discovery. Indeed, large-scale computations are now commonly considered in order to assess if a theory is consistent with experimental results, to question a large collection of data, or to understand a given (probably predicted) mechanism through high precision simulations. High Performance Computing aims at providing reasonably fast computing solutions to both scientific and real life technical problems. However, whatever the current and future breathtaking capabilities of supercomputers, they still work by brute
force and deterministic steps orchestrated by programs, while human mind works by few strokes of brilliance. Thus,
in order to take a significant advantage of hardware advances in the purpose of solving challenging problems, we need powerful methods together with highly skillful programming efforts and relevant frameworks. The purpose of this talk is to provide a panoramic overview of the HPC landscape, following the three axes of its basis: machines, methods, and programs. Beside classical combinatorial problems that will be used to illustrate (unachieved but still expected) computing dreams, two case studies will be more developped: Lattice Quantum ChromoDynamics (LQCD) and parallel computation of the covariance matrix. Synopsis of how to program supercomputers will be provided too.
Agustina Bucella #
Agustina Buccella, PhD in Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires. Year 2009) and Master of Computer Science (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires. Year 2005) .
Alejandra Cechich #
Director of the Comahue Software Engineering Research Group (GIISCo – http://giisco.uncoma.edu.ar), professor at the National University of Comahue and Director of the Department of Systems Engineering.
Claude Tadonki #
Claude Tadonki (M) is a senior researcher and lecturer at the MINES ParisTech Institute (Paris/France) since 2011. He holds a PhD and a Habilitation degree in computer science from University of Rennes and from Paris-Sud University respectively.
Brett Oppegaard #
Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric Texas Tech University, 2009-2011, Lubbock, TX (completed degree, GPA: 4.0) Master of Arts in Communication University of Portland, 1997-1999, Portland, Bachelor of Arts in Communication Washington State University, 1989-1993, Pullman, WA .
Assistant Professor (2014-present) – The School of Communications, The College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu HI. Carnegie Classified as RU/VH (research university / very high research activity). Assistant Professor (2011-2014) – Creative Media and Digital Culture / The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA / Pullman, WA, Carnegie Classified as RU/VH (research university / very high research activity).
Ongoing Federally Funded Grant Projects: • The National Park Service Audio Description Research Grant, $278,300, through 2017, PI, collaboration with 40 sites nationwide to improve accessibility. • The National Park Service Listen, Feel and Learn App Research Project, $61,000, through 2017, PI, exploring haptic and non-visual learning. • The National Park Service Yellowstone App Interactivity Research Project, $20,000, through 2016, PI, expansion of app research around Old Faithful.
George Kakarontzas #
George Kakarontzas has a PhD with honors in Quality Assurance of Component-Based Software Systems from the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and an MSc with Distinction in Object-Oriented Software Technology from the University of Brighton (UK).
He is also a graduate of the Computer Science department of the Athens University of Business and Economics. George is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece, where he teaches Software Engineering, Software Quality and Compilers.
In the past he has taught many related courses including Object-Oriented Programming (with Java and C#), Internet Programming with Java Enterprise Edition technologies and Distributed Systems. He publishes regularly in peer reviewed international journals and conferences in the area of software engineering and distributed computing.
Luis Adriano Calero #
Serial Entrepreneur (+20 companies and Foundations: founded or co-founded). Interest: Sistemas / IT, Entrepreneurship, Writing, Education.
Chariman and CEO at redPartner, Director at aesoft, Chairman & Co-Founder of Optim, beAnalytic, redPartner Perú, and many others.
Fulbright Alumni; Honor Diplomas, Research Assistant in Computer Scince Department and Medical School at Souther Illinois University; several teaching Asistanships in post and under graduate at Universidad del Valle.
Full profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiscalero
Malumbo Chipofya #
Doctor of Natural Science (Dr. rer. Nat.)., Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
2008 – 2010 M.Sc. in Geospatial Technologies, Universidad Jaume I in Spain, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal.
Feb 2016 – present Research Associate – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster on Project its4land.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Research Associate – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Spatial Intelligence Lab (Prof. Dr. Angela Schwering).
Several papers published and member of conference organizing committees.
María Belén Rivera #
Systems Engineer (National University of La Pampa), Ph.D (c) UNLP. Member of the research project "Integrated Approach Evaluation and Quality Improvement in Software Organizations with support for Multilevel Information Needs". Member of Gidis research group of the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of La Pampa.
Main areas of research interest: software / web quality measurement and evaluation strategies, goals and information needs at different organizational levels.
More info:
Professor profile | Research
Pablo Martín Vera #
Informatics PhD. and Engineer.
From Argentina. University Professor and Researcher, Professor of Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza and others.
More about him in his LinkedIn profile:
https://ar.linkedin.com/in/pablomartinvera
Rocío Andrea Rodríguez #
PhD in Coputer Science - UNL (Universidad Nacional de La Plata). From Argentina. University Professor and Researcher.
She is Director of Research Projects at UNLaM and UAI, Academic Director of GIDFIS in UNLaM, Member of Research Groups.
She participates assiduously in national and international congresses (more than 80 papers published). She has 2 book published and 6 chapters of books published abroad.
Find out more about her in her LinkedIn profile:
https://ar.linkedin.com/in/rocioandrearodriguez
Yezid Donoso #
Associate Professor. Senior researcher - The Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation COLCIENCIAS.
Director of the Master program in Information Security. Director of the postgraduate program in Information Security. Past Chair IEEE Colombia Section.
Several certificates from the Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
More info:
https://sistemas.uniandes.edu.co/~ydonoso