Received the Intel oneAPI Innovator award in 2020 for her research on 'Efficiency and Productivity for Decision-making on Mobile SoCs'; SCIE-ZONTA Award from the Scientific Society of Informatics in Spain in 2021; Secured over a million euros in competitive funding as Co-PI and project manager.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral researcher at EPFL since 2022, working with EcoCloud on projects like SEAMS and UrbanTwin to develop sustainable computing technologies. Conducted research visits at the EPFL Embedded Systems Laboratory (Lausanne, CH) in 2022 and the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (Boston, USA) in 2018.
Education
PhD in Mechatronics: 2017-2022, Department of Computer Architecture, University of Malaga (Spain). Research areas: High-performance computing, mobile robot navigation, decision-making algorithms under uncertainty. Advisors: Prof. Mª Angeles Navarro, Prof. Rafael Asenjo Plaza; Master in Computer Engineering: 2015-2017, University of Malaga, Spain. Research areas: Management of research, innovation, and investigation, high-performance computing, cloud computing, big data analysis, uncertainty management in intelligent systems. Advisors: Prof. Mª Angeles Navarro, Prof. Juan Antonio Fernández Madrigal; B.Eng. in Automatics and Applied Informatics: 2011-2015, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania). Areas: Industrial process control systems, robots programming, real-time systems, industrial computer networks, numerical methods and optimization techniques. Advisor: Prof. dr. ing. Drăgoicea Monica.
Background
Research Interests: Sustainable and energy-efficient algorithms, architectures, and methods, particularly in wearables, IoT, and data centers. Specialized in scientific computing for astronomy, mobile robot navigation, and biomedical domains.
Miscellany
Hobbies include painting, cooking, soap making, reading, photography, and electronics, with a particular passion for learning. Actively promotes diversity in STEM, supports underprivileged children through Fundația SVASTA in Romania, and trains girls in tech skills at the award-winning Campus Tech Chicas in Spain.