Dr. de Pedro combines his business activity at HPE Spain with teaching and research duties at UAM. He is also a founding partner of Naudit HPCN.

Javier Aracil received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (Honors) from Technical University of Madrid in 1993 and 1995, both in Telecommunications Engineering. In 1995 he was awarded with a Fulbright scholarship and was appointed as a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. In 1998 he was a research scholar at the Center for Advanced Telecommunications, Systems and Services of The University of Texas at Dallas. He has been an associate professor for University of Cantabria and Public University of Navarra and he is currently a full professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. His research interest are in optical networks and performance evaluation of communication networks. He has authored more than 100 papers in international conferences and journals. He is a founding partner of the spin-off company Naudit HPCN.

Javier Ramos de Santiago received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2008 from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Before that, he joined the Networking Research Group of the same university, where he participated in the European Union project OneLab2 and in the national research project PASITO. In 2013 he obtained the PhD degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Currently he is working as post-doc assistant professor at UAM.

José Luis García Dorado received the M. SC. and Ph.D. degrees from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, in 2006 and 2010 respectively, both in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering. He is a member of the Networking Research Group at UAM since 2005 when he began collaborating in national and European research projects as an assistant researcher in ePhoton/One Plus Network of Excellence. Then, he was awarded with a four-year fellowship (F.P.I. scholarship) by the Ministry of Education of Spain (2007), and has later been a visiting scholar in the Telecommunication Networks Group at Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2010), in the Internet Systems Lab at Purdue University, USA (2013) and in FICA at Universidad Tecnica del Norte, Ecuador (2014, 2015). Currently, he is an associate professor at UAM whose research interests are in the analysis of Internet traffic: its management, modeling, and evolution.

El Dr. Sergio López Buedo, es profesor contratado doctor en el área de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores de la UAM y socio fundador de NAUDIT, una empresa de base tecnológica spin-off de dicha universidad. Tiene más de 15 años de experiencia investigadora en FPGAs. Ha investigado en temas como el diseño de alta velocidad y bajo consumo, gestión térmica de los dispositivos lógicos programables, reconfiguración dinámica y autorreconfiguración, sistemas embebidos basados en FPGAs, computación reconfigurable de altas prestaciones y sistemas de monitorización de redes basados en FPGAs. Adicionalmente, ha realizado estancias en la U. de British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), en la U. George Washington (Washington D.C., EE.UU.). Por último destacar una amplia experiencia desarrollando proyectos para varias empresas, y una activa participación en la enseñanza de la tecnología FPGA y diseños PCB a empresas españolas.

Ivan Gonzalez received the Computer Engineering degree (Ms.C.) in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2006, both from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain. From October 2002 to October 2006 he was Teaching Assistant at the Computer Engineering Department of UAM. From November 2006 to January 2008 he was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL), Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, The George Washington University (Washington DC, USA). He was a faculty member of the NSF Center of High Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) at The George Washington University. His main research interests are heterogeneous computing (with GPUs, FPGAs, etc.), parallel algorithms and performance tuning. Other interests include FPGA-based reconfigurable computing applications, with a special focus on dynamic partial reconfiguration, embedded systems and robotics.

Francisco J. Gómez-Arribas received his Ph.D. from UAM, Spain, in 1996. From October 1996 until November 2000 he was an assistant professor at the Computer Engineering Department of UAM. He is currently associate professor of computer architecture and parallel computing courses at the same university. His research fields of interest concern reconfigurable computing applications based on FPGA circuits, with a special focus on the design of multiprocessor systems with reconfigurable architectures. Secondary fields of interest include network computing, cryptographic coprocessors, embedded system-on-a-chip, and experimental support of computer science and electrical engineering education on the Internet.

Jorge LÓPEZ DE VERGARA is currently an associate professor in the Electronics and Communication Technologies Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He received his MSc degree in telecommunications from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) in 1998 and finished his PhD in telematics engineering at the same university in 2003, where he held a 4-year research grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. In 2000 he was a visiting researcher at Hewlett-Packard labs for 6 months. He has participated in several Spanish and EU research projects. In 2009, together with other university professors, he founded Naudit High Performance Computing and Networking, a spin-off company devoted to traffic monitoring and analysis. His current research topics include network, service, and distributed application management and monitoring. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in scientific conferences and journals.

I received the System Engineering in Computer Science degree by UNCPBA university (Faculty of Exact Science) at Tandil, Argentina. And the Ph.D Degree in Computer and Telecomunication Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. At the moment, I´m researching and teaching at the School of Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. I´m at the High Performance Computing and Networking Group (HPCN).

Research

My main interest are in FPGA Design, Digital Arithmetic, Computer Architectures, Low Power Design techniques, embedded systems design, and High Performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC).

I’m working at the at the School of Engineering,Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In the High Performance Computing and Networking Group (HPCN)

Teaching

In this year I am teaching:

Computer Architecture (Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores) – Spanish

Digital Circuit Design(Estructura y Diseño de Circuitos Digitales) – Spanish