Rosa María Badia Sala (born 1966)[1] is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in parallel computing, supercomputing, superscalar processing, and multi-core processing.[2] She is a researcher of the Spanish National Research Council, affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she is the manager of the workflows and distributed computing group.[2]

Education and career

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Badia earned a degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1989, and continued at UPC for a Ph.D., which she completed in 1994,[3] under the direction of Jordi Cortadella.[4] She worked at UPC as a lecturer in computer architecture from 1989 to 1997, and then as an associate professor from 1997 to 2008.[3]

Badia's early work concerned electronic design automation.[2] While working at UPC, she became a researcher at the European Center of Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA) beginning in 1999,[3] through which her interests shifted to parallel computing.[2] In 2005 she became manager of the workflows and distributed computing group in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the successor project to CEPBA.[1]

She became a researcher for the Spanish National Research Council in 2008,[1] also continuing to lecture at the UPC[3] as a part-time associate professor since 2011.[1]

Recognition

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Badia was the 2019 winner of the Euro-Par Achievement Award, an annual award of the European Conference on Parallel Processing given to researchers with outstanding contributions to the topic.[5] Also in 2019, the Generalitat de Catalunya gave her their DonaTIC prize in the academic/researcher category, recognizing the achievements of women in STEM in Catalonia.[6] She won the HPDC Achievement Award for 2021 at the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), "for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community".[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 7 July 2021, retrieved 2022-07-10
  2. ^ a b c d "Rosa Badia", People of ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, 16 November 2021, retrieved 2022-07-10
  3. ^ a b c d "Rosa M. Badia", People, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, retrieved 2022-07-10
  4. ^ "Ficha de Tesis: Sintesi d'alt nivell de circuits asincrons", Tesis doctorales: TESEO, Spanish Ministry of Universities, retrieved 2022-07-10
  5. ^ "Rosa M. Badia receives the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2019", Euro-Par, 2019, retrieved 2022-07-10
  6. ^ "Guardonades edició 2019", Premis DonaTIC (in Catalan), Generalitat de Catalunya, retrieved 2022-07-10
  7. ^ "HPDC Achievement Award 2021", ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2021, retrieved 2022-07-10
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