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 July 2024 he has published 190 papers on these
lines in international journals and conferences (e.g. ACM/IEEE
Supercomputing, ACM/IEEE DAC, ACM ICS, IEEE IPDPS, PACT, IEEE
ISPASS, IEEE/ACM CGO, IEEE CLUSTER, ICPP, IEEE 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 187 national and international
R&D projects, contracts and networks (in 86 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. Prof. Touriño
is co-founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of this company,
which has received 20 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 17 software products in the IP Registry.
Prof. Touriño has served in the Program Committee of 94
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. He has been the
Head of the Department of Electronics and Systems in 2009-2013.