Rosa María Badia Sala (born 1966) is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in

parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different fo ...

supercomputing A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

, superscalar processing, and multi-core processing. She is a researcher of the

Spanish National Research Council The Spanish National Research Council ( es, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote res ...

, affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she is the manager of the workflows and distributed computing group.

Education and career

Badia earned a degree in computer science from the

Polytechnic University of Catalonia The Technical University of Catalonia ( ca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, , es, link=no, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spai ...

(UPC) in 1989, and continued at UPC for a Ph.D., which she completed in 1994, under the direction of Jordi Cortadella. She worked at UPC as a lecturer in computer architecture from 1989 to 1997, and then as an associate professor from 1997 to 2008. Badia's early work concerned

electronic design automation Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing Electronics, electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools wo ...

. While working at UPC, she became a researcher at the European Center of Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA) beginning in 1999, through which her interests shifted to parallel computing. In 2005 she became manager of the workflows and distributed computing group in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the successor project to CEPBA. She became a researcher for the Spanish National Research Council in 2008, also continuing to lecture at the UPC as a part-time associate professor since 2011.

Recognition

Badia was the 2019 winner of the Euro-Par Achievement Award, an annual award of the European Conference on Parallel Processing given to researchers with outstanding contributions to the topic. Also in 2019, the

Generalitat de Catalunya The Generalitat de Catalunya (; oc, label=Aranese, Generalitat de Catalonha; es, Generalidad de Cataluña), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia politically organizes its self-government. It is formed b ...

gave her their DonaTIC prize in the academic/researcher category, recognizing the achievements of women in STEM in Catalonia. She won the HPDC Achievement Award for 2021 at the ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '21), "for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community".

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