Presenter

Gabriel Antoniu is a Senior Research Scientist at Inria, Rennes (France). He leads the KerData research team, focusing on storage and I/O management for Big Data processing on scalable infrastructures (clouds, HPC systems). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2001 from ENS Lyon (France). He leads several international projects in partnership with Microsoft Research, IBM, Argonne National Lab, and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His service to the community includes the roles of Program Chair for the IEEE Cluster 2017 and 2014 conferences, Vice-Program Chair for the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2016 and 2017 conferences as well as regular PC membership for major conferences in the area of HPC, cloud computing and Big Data (SC, HPDC, CCGRID, Cluster, Big Data, etc.). He has acted as advisor for 17 PhD theses and has co-authored over 120 international publications.