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Computer Science
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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
16723
World Ranking
1712
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2012 - ACM Distinguished Service Award For extraordinary leadership of initiatives in high-performance computing research and education, including the HiPEAC European Network of Excellence and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2007 - ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award 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.
  • 2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the design of vector, superscalar, and VLIW architectures, and technical leadership.
  • 2001 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the design of vector architectures and superscalar processors.

Overview

Mateo Valero is affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. Their research primarily concentrates on computer science, with a focus on hardware and architecture, computer networks and communications, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics in supercomputing and architectural optimization. Notable papers include:

  • Vitruvius+: An Area-Efficient RISC-V Decoupled Vector Coprocessor for High Performance Computing Applications, 2022, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
  • Semi-automatic validation of cycle-accurate simulation infrastructures: The case for gem5-x86, 2020, Future Generation Computer Systems
  • When Sally Met Harry or When AI Met HPC, 2021, Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations
  • The Ultimate DataFlow for Ultimate SuperComputers-on-a-Chip, for Scientific Computing, Geo Physics, Complex Mathematics, and Information Processing, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • RigoChat 2: an adapted language model to Spanish using a bounded dataset and reduced hardware, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors associated with Mateo Valero's work include Veljko Milutinović, Miloš Kotlar, Ivan Ratković, Nenad Korolija, and Miljan Djordjevic.

The scientist has published in several venues repeatedly, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations
  • DIT ADS International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

Valero's research spans multiple subjects including:

  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Embedded Systems Design Techniques
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Interconnection Networks and Systems
  • Radiation Effects in Electronics
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management

Additionally, Mateo Valero contributed to the publication of a book titled La cultura del esfuerzo in 2021, released by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In terms of academic recognition, Valero received several awards, such as the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2012 for leadership in high-performance computing initiatives, the ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2007 for significant contributions to computer architecture, and has been honored as ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow for work in vector architectures and superscalar processors. The scientist was also named a member of the Academia Europaea in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The International Exascale Software Project roadmap

    Jack Dongarra;Pete Beckman;Terry Moore;Patrick Aerts

  • Multiple-banked register file architectures

    José-Lorenzo Cruz;Antonio González;Mateo Valero;Nigel P. Topham

  • A data cache with multiple caching strategies tuned to different types of locality

    Antonio González;Carlos Aliagas;Mateo Valero

  • Hardware support for WCET analysis of hard real-time multicore systems

    Marco Paolieri;Eduardo Quiñones;Francisco J. Cazorla;Guillem Bernat

  • Parallel Computer Architecture

    Silvia M. Müller;Per Stenström;Mateo Valero;Stamatis Vassiliadis

  • Performance, power efficiency and scalability of asymmetric cluster chip multiprocessors

    T.Y. Morad;U.C. Weiser;A. Kolodnyt;M. Valero

  • Dynamically Controlled Resource Allocation in SMT Processors

    Francisco J. Cazorla;Alex Ramirez;Mateo Valero;Enrique Fernandez

  • Alya: Multiphysics engineering simulation toward exascale

    Mariano Vazquez;Mariano Vazquez;Guillaume Houzeaux;Seid Koric;Antoni Artigues

  • Enabling preemptive multiprogramming on GPUs

    Ivan Tanasic;Isaac Gelado;Javier Cabezas;Alex Ramirez

  • Supercomputing with commodity CPUs: are mobile SoCs ready for HPC?

    Nikola Rajovic;Paul M. Carpenter;Isaac Gelado;Nikola Puzovic

  • Fuzzy memoization for floating-point multimedia applications

    C. Alvarez;J. Corbal;M. Valero

  • Improving Cache Management Policies Using Dynamic Reuse Distances

    Nam Duong;Dali Zhao;Taesu Kim;Rosario Cammarota

  • An Analyzable Memory Controller for Hard Real-Time CMPs

    M. Paolieri;E. Quinones;F.J. Cazorla;M. Valero

  • Swing module scheduling: a lifetime-sensitive approach

    J. Llosa;A. Gonzalez;E. Ayguade;M. Valero

  • Eliminating cache conflict misses through XOR-based placement functions

    Antonio González;Mateo Valero;Nigel Topham;Joan M. Parcerisa

  • Virtual-physical registers

    A. Gonzalez;J. Gonzalez;M. Valero

  • Out-of-order commit processors

    A. Cristal;D. Ortega;J. Llosa;M. Valero

  • Task Superscalar: An Out-of-Order Task Pipeline

    Yoav Etsion;Felipe Cabarcas;Alejandro Rico;Alex Ramirez

  • EazyHTM: eager-lazy hardware transactional memory

    Sasa Tomic;Cristian Perfumo;Chinmay Kulkarni;Adria Armejach

  • Multicore Resource Management

    K.J. Nesbit;M. Moreto;F.J. Cazorla;A. Ramirez

  • Mu It iple-Ban ked Register File Architectures

    Jose-Lorenzo Cruz;Antonio Gonzalez;Mateo Valero;Nigel P. Topham

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduard Ayguadé
Eduard Ayguadé Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Alex Ramirez
Alex Ramirez Google (United States)
Francisco J. Cazorla
Francisco J. Cazorla Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Jesús Labarta
Jesús Labarta Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Antonio Gonzalez
Antonio Gonzalez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Rosa M. Badia
Rosa M. Badia Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Tim Harris
Tim Harris Oracle (United States)
Mario Nemirovsky
Mario Nemirovsky Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Rizos Sakellariou
Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester
Jordi Torres
Jordi Torres Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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