Samuel Xavier-de-Souza

Samuel Xavier-de-Souza was born in Natal, Brazil. He holds a Computer Engineer degree from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte-UFRN, Brazil, 2000, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2007. He worked for IMEC, Belgium, as a Software/Hardware Engineer and for the Flemish Supercomputing Center, Belgium, as a High-Performance Computing Consultant. In 2009, he joined the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation at UFRN, where he currently holds the position of Associate Professor. He is a founder and chief coordinator of the High-Performance Computing Center-NPAD at UFRN. In 2016, he became a Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellow for his work on Energy-Efficient Software.