Antonio González

Antonio González is a Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. He began his professional career as Research Assistant at this university while he was an undergraduate student in Informatics Engineering and after finishing his PhD in Computer Engineering in 1989, he founded the ARCO research group at UPC, which he has led ever since. Demonstrating his leadership in technology transfer, he also led the establishment of the Intel Barcelona Research Center in 2002 and served as its director until 2014.

His research has focused on computer architecture, compilers and parallel processing, with a special emphasis on processor microarchitecture and code generation. He was among the first researchers to anticipate the importance of reducing energy consumption in computing systems, developing numerous innovative techniques to optimize energy for core microprocessor components. He also pioneered research in the area of resilient microarchitectures, developing multiple techniques to counteract transient faults due to soft errors and mitigate wear-out induced errors. He was one of the first to recognize and leverage the potential of value and data dependence speculation for performance gains, and to develop disruptive techniques for the dynamic generation of speculative threads. More recently, he has focused on improving the energy efficiency of GPUs for animated graphics applications and cognitive computing systems.

Antonio’s recognitions include the King Jaime I Award in the area of New Technologies, the Aritmel National Award of Informatics to the Computer Engineer of the Year, the Duran Farell award for research in technology, and the ICREA Academia Award. He has been inducted into MICRO, ISCA and HPCA Hall of Fames, is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and has served as program chair of MICRO, ISCA and HPCA among other symposia.