Mateo Valero

Mateo Valero Cortés (born 1952 in Alfamén) is a Spanish computer architect. His research encompasses different concepts within the field of computer architecture, a discipline in which he has published more than 700 papers in journals, conference proceedings and books. Valero has received nomerous awards, including the Eckert-Mauchly award in 2007, for "extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering basic new approaches to instruction-level parallelism." He is the director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts the MareNostrum supercomputer.

Mateo Valero graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM) in 1974 and got his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC). Among other awards recognising his achievements, Valero has won the prestigious IEEE-Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award – the highest international honour in the field of computer architecture – ‘for extraordinary leadership in building a world class computer architecture research center, for seminal contributions in the areas of vector computing and multithreading, and for pioneering basic new approaches to instruction-level parallelism’.

In 2017, Valero won the Charles Babbage award for parallel computing for his “contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building on incredibly productive European research environment" and in 2015 the Seymour Cray award for supercomputing ‘in recognition of seminal contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures’. He has also been presented with the Goode award (2009), again for his contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW architectures; the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award 'for extraordinary leadership of initiatives in high-performance computing research and education'; the Julio Rey Pastor Spanish National Research Award in Mathematics, Information and Communication Technology (2001); the Leonardo Torres Quevedo Spanish National Research Award in Engineering (2006); and the Rey Jaime I Award for fundamental research (1997).

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