
Miquel Moreto
High Performance Computer Architecture research area Director, Barcelona Super Computing Center
Miquel Moreto is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Computer Architecture Departament (DAC) at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), where he teaches Computer Architecture.
Since 2025, he is the Director of the High Performance Computer Architecture research area at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), coordinating 10 research groups and over 150 researchers in computer architecture. He received the BSc, MSc, and PhD from the UPC. His PhD thesis advisors were Mateo Valero and Francisco J. Cazorla. During his PhD, he interned at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for 4 months, and visited the Universities of Edinburgh and Cantabria for 3 months. After finishing the PhD, he spent 15 months at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), affiliated with UC Berkeley, as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Holder during 2011 and 2012.
In 2013, he returned to Barcelona to work on the RoMoL and Mont-Blanc projects. In 2017, he spent 2 months at Arm Research (Cambridge, UK) as a Visiting Professor. In 2018, he continued his career as a Ramón y Cajal fellow at UPC, leading the Lagarto initiative that developed the first open source processor in Spain based on the RISC-V ISA. Finally, he became Associate Professor at UPC in 2023.