Juan Touriño (Oviedo, 1970) received a joint B.S./M.S. in
Informatics in 1993 (Best Student Record Award) and a PhD in
Computer Engineering in 1998 (Best PhD Thesis Award), both at the
University of A Coruña (UDC), Spain. He completed his education
through research visits to the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center
(UK) and to the CINECA Supercomputing Center (Bologna, Italy). He
has been teaching at the Faculty of Computer Science of UDC since
1993 and was promoted to the position of Full Professor in 2007
through the "National Habilitation" process. His main research
area is High Performance Computing (HPC), covering a wide range of
research topics: high performance communications, networks and
architectures, programming languages and compilers for HPC,
parallel and distributed algorithms & applications, HPC
support for Big Data, cloud computing and, in general, software
for HPC. As of June 2025 he has published 192 papers on these
lines in international journals and conferences (e.g. PLDI,
Supercomputing, DAC, ICS, IPDPS, PACT, ISPASS, CGO, CLUSTER, ICPP,
LCN, IEEE/ACM GRID, IEEE Big Data, etc.), and has supervised 10
PhD Theses (8 of them with the International Mention and 7 awarded
as Best PhD Thesis). Prof. Touriño has participated in 190
national and international R&D projects, contracts and
networks (in 87 of them as PI or co-PI), funded by competitive
public calls or by private contracts. In fact, 89 of them are
contracts with companies and public administrations, with a strong
commitment to technology transfer, and culminating with the
launching in 2013 of a UDC spin-off (Torus Software Solutions) to
commercialize research results of Big Data, HPC and cloud
computing. Torus achieved a turnover of 2.4 million € in 2024.
Prof. Touriño is co-founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of
this company (until Dec 2024), which has received 21
entrepreneurship and innovation awards, including the "Ramón
LLull" Spanish National Computer Science Award in 2020 (SCIE and
BBVA Foundation). He is coauthor of one US patent and has
registered 19 software products in the IP Registry. Prof. Touriño
has served in the Program Committee of 96 international
conferences (in 7 of them as Chair or Vice-Chair), and has been
Associate or Guest Editor of 5 JCR journals. He also co-chaired
the 7th Spanish Conference on Informatics (CEDI) in 2024, the
leading national event in computing.