Filippo Mantovani

Filippo Mantovani is an established researcher responsible for the Mobile and embedded-based HPC group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He graduated in mathematics and held a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ferrara, Italy. He has been a scientific associate at the DESY laboratory in Zeuthen, Germany, and the University of Regensburg, Germany, spending most of his scientific career in computational physics and high-performance computing. He brought up and evaluated large high-performance computing systems, contributing to the Janus, QPACE and Mont-Blanc projects. He is involved in the FPGA prototyping tasks of RISC-V-based accelerators within the European Processor Initiative (EPI). Also, he is currently leading the collaboration between BSC and industrial group Etxe-tar for optimizing high throughput manufacturing systems.