Juan Touriño (Oviedo, 1970) received a 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. Another active research area is
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), mainly cross-cutting with HPC
topics. As of October 2020 he has published 175 papers on these lines in
international journals and conferences (e.g. ACM/IEEE Supercomputing,
ACM/IEEE DAC, ACM ICS, IEEE IPDPS, IEEE/ACM CGO, IEEE CLUSTER, ICPP, IEEE
LCN, IEEE/ACM GRID, ACM GIS, IEEE Big Data, etc.), and has supervised 9
PhD Theses (7 of them with the International Mention and 4 awarded as Best
PhD Thesis). Prof. Touriño has participated in 155 national and
international R&D projects, contracts and networks (in 68 of them as
PI or co-PI), funded by competitive public calls or by private
contracts. In fact, 72 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. Prof. Touriño is co-founder and Chair of the
Board of Directors of this company, which has received 18 entrepreneurship
awards, including the "Ramón LLull" Spanish National Computer Science
Award in 2020. He is coauthor of one US patent and has registered 13
software products in the IP Registry. Prof. Touriño has served in the
Program Committee of 80 international conferences (in 7 of them as Chair
or Vice-Chair), and has been Guest Editor in 3 international ISI-JCR
journals. He has been the Head of the Department of Electronics and
Systems in the period 2009-2013.