Antonio González

Senior Principal Engineer, Corporate Technology Group

Director, CTG/MTL Intel Barcelona Research Center

Antonio González received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. He is the founding director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center, started in 2002, whose research focuses on new microarchitecture paradigms and code generation techniques for future microprocessors. Prior to this, he joined the faculty of the Computer Architecture Department of UPC in 1986, and became a Full Professor in 2002. He currently holds an adjunct Professor position at this department.

              His research has focused on computer architecture, compilers and parallel processing, with a special emphasis on processor microarchitecture and code generation. He has published over 250 papers, has filed over 40 patents, has given over 80 invited talks, and has advised 13 PhD thesis in the areas of Resilient Processors, Multicore Architectures, Power-Aware Microarchitectures; Clustered Microarchitectures; Speculative Multithreaded Processors; Data Value and Data Dependence Speculation and Reuse; Cache Architectures; Register File Architecture; Modulo Scheduling; Code Analysis and Optimization; Parallel Algorithms; Prolog-Oriented Architectures; Instruction Fetching Mechanisms; and Digital Image Processing.

              Antonio González has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, and Journal of Embedded Computing. He has served on over 100 program committees for international symposia in the field of computer architecture, including ISCA, ASPLOS, MICRO, HPCA, PACT, CGO, ICS, ICCD, ISPASS, CASES and IPDPS. He has been program chair for ICS 2003, ISPASS 2003, MICRO 2004 and HPCA 2008, and general chair for MICRO 2008, among other symposia.