Current and Past (TFG/TFM and old PFC) Students


We are very proud of all the students that decided to work with us in their graduation projects (known here as Proyecto Fin de Carrera or Trabajo Fin de Grado). Hopefully, the effort devoted to their projects has been beneficial for their professional careers.

Below, we show a list of students who are currently developing their work with us and some of the most distinguied cases we have had in the past.



2018

  • Andrea Alarcia Gutiérrez   

    TFG: Impacto de la Arquitectura del Procesador en aplicaciones Big-Data

    Advisor: Pablo Abad

    Current Status:

    Andrea is exploring the performance efficiency of NoSQL applications running on top of general-purpose CPUs. Through hardware counter monitoring, she evaluates the effect on the cache hierarchy of diverse design decisions made on NoSQL database.

  • Luis Pérez Moya   

    TFG: Evaluación, Virtualización y Simulación sobre arquitectura ARM

    Advisor: Pablo Prieto

    Current Status:

    Luis currently holds a collaboration grant from the “Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte”, to develop his Project. His work focuses on the configuration of a CPU+GPU ARM architecture to be able to run the simulation framework gem5.

2017

  • Alejandro Fernández Gutiérrez   

    TFG: Desarrollo y evaluación de cargas de trabajo NoSQL open-source bajo tecnologías con contenedor

    Advisor: Jose Angel Herrero

    Current Status:

    Alejando works on the automatic deployment and evaluation of a multi-node database (Cassandra) on a distributed environment (cloud) making use of container technologies (Docker & Docker Swarm). He is close to finish his TFG, and he will be soon (May 2018) working for IBM Spain, as junior system administrator in their Mainframe group.

2014

  • Alfonso de la Vega Ruíz   

    PFC: Superando las limitaciones del Apilado Vertical mediante nuevas Micro-arquitecturas de Router

    Advisor: Pablo Abad

    Current Status:

    Alfonso is currently working as pre-doctoral researcher for the University of Cantabria, advised by Marta Zorrilla. His research interests focus on Data mining and knowledge discovery, model-driven development, metamodeling and domain-specific languages.

  • Xutao Zhang   

    PFC: Virtualización de Servidores: Evaluación de rendimientos en procesos Live Migration con máquinas virtuales y Consolidación Automática

    Advisor: Jose Angel Herrero

    Current Status:

    Since 2015 Xutao works as Analytic Analyst for Accenture. He is the full stack developer of a real-time recommendation engine for client content personalization. Previously, he has also worked as Software Developer for Emancipia, analyzing, programming and testing multiple applications.

2012

  • Alejandro Varela   

    PFC: Diseño e Implementación de un Sistema de Almacenamiento Masivo Low Cost de Alto Rendimiento y Escalabilidad para Entornos HPC

    Advisor: Jose Angel Herrero

    Current Status:

    Alex has recently started working on BBVA as trading algorithms developer in the Algorithmic Strategies And Data Science departament. Also he is also doing research in machine learning models for finantial markets. Previously he worked for Comunytek Company as Java Programmer, collaborating in multiple technology projects related to the financial market field. These projects include AngulaJs development, BlockChain technology application, etc.

  • Jorge Bellón Castro   

    PFC: Simulación y Evaluación de Arquitecturas de Procesador con 3D Stacking y Tecnología de Memoria STT-RAM

    Advisor: Pablo Abad

    Current Status:

    Jorge is currently working for Cray Inc. (Bristol, UK) as a HPC Software Engineer. Previously, he has worked for the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a parallel programming developer and also as business intelligence consultant in the development of a stock management application for an international gas company.

2009

  • Javier Merino Cacho   

    PFC: Entornos de Evaluación de Sistemas Multiprocesador y “Chip Multiprocessors”

    Advisor: Valentín Puente

    Current Status:

    Since 2010, Javier works for ARM in Cambridge, UK, holding different positions as Software Engineer. Previously he worked for IBM in the development of performance analysis tools. He is also an enthusiast collaborator in the Debian Project, actively collaborating in the development of Debian.

2004

  • Sergio Garrido Fernandez   

    TFG: Clusters HPC Basados en Software Libre

    Advisor: Valentín Puente

    Current Status:

    Sergio is the CEO of Cosmikal, a Company providing consulting and integration systems services. He has also worked for Mundivia in different positions such as Service Delivery Manager and Senior System Administrator.