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Jun 23, 2026 I attended the First International Workshop on AI and Serverless (WoAIS1) online. Our research group helped co-organize this first workshop dedicated to the intersection of AI and serverless computing.
Jun 20, 2026 I’m co-chairing the Artifact Evaluation Committee for Middleware 2026 alongside Raúl Gracia-Tinedo, helping promote reproducibility and reusable research artifacts in the systems community.
Jun 05, 2026 I attended ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026 in Bengaluru and presented our paper Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning.
May 25, 2026 I’ll be attending ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2026 in Bengaluru from May 31 to June 5, where I’ll present our paper Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning.
Apr 29, 2026 Our article AI Factories: It’s Time to Rethink the Cloud-HPC Divide has been accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM! An earlier preprint is available on arXiv, but it differs substantially from the accepted article.
Apr 15, 2026 Today we held the 11th URV Doctoral Workshop in Computer Science and Mathematics (DCSM 2026). It was a pleasure to co-chair the workshop and bring together doctoral researchers from across the Computer Science and Mathematics doctoral programme at URV to share their work and ideas. Thanks a lot to the two invited speakers Dr. Raúl Gracia and Dr. Marina Garrote for their great talks. Also thank you to everyone who participated and helped organize it!
Mar 11, 2026 I gave an invited online talk in Purdue University’s Databases for AI: Vector Databases seminar about our work on stateless serverless vector databases and block-based data partitioning.
Feb 02, 2026 Reminder for DCSM 2026: abstracts are due on February 15, and workshop registration closes on March 30. We look forward to learning about the research being developed across the department’s doctoral community!
Dec 22, 2025 Our paper MetaPaper: Massively Scaling Minecraft Worlds With Dynamic Load Balancing has been accepted at IPDPS 2026!
Dec 15, 2025 I attended the 11th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC11) online. Our research group helped co-organize the workshop, held in conjunction with Middleware 2025.
Dec 12, 2025 I’ve been invited to give an online talk in Purdue University’s Databases for AI: Vector Databases seminar on March 11, 2026. I’ll present the work behind our SIGMOD paper, Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning.
Dec 01, 2025 CloudLab will help organize the 11th URV Doctoral Workshop in Computer Science and Mathematics (DCSM 2026), to be held on April 15, 2026. I’ll serve as a general chair alongside Oriol Farràs.
Nov 03, 2025 Our paper Flexecutor: Out-of-the-Box Smart Provisioning for Serverless Workflows has been accepted at the 11th Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC 2025)!
Aug 23, 2025 Our paper Building Stateless Serverless Vector DBs via Block-based Data Partitioning has been accepted at SIGMOD 2026!
Jul 09, 2025 I attended USENIX ATC 2025 in Boston and presented our paper Burst Computing: Quick, Sudden, Massively Parallel Processing on Serverless Resources.
Jun 30, 2025 I’ll be attending USENIX ATC 2025 in Boston from July 7–9, where I’ll present our paper Burst Computing: Quick, Sudden, Massively Parallel Processing on Serverless Resources.
Jun 17, 2025 I attended the Fourth International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WoSCx4) online. Our research group helped co-organize this virtual meeting of the serverless-computing community.
Jun 01, 2025 I started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Apr 29, 2025 Our paper Burst Computing: Quick, Sudden, Massively Parallel Processing on Serverless Resources has been accepted at USENIX ATC 2025!
Mar 28, 2025 I was awarded an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Dec 02, 2024 I attended the 10th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC10) online. Our research group helped co-organize the workshop, held in conjunction with Middleware 2024.
Oct 01, 2024 I joined the Data-Centric Computing team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a researcher.
Jun 19, 2024 I attended the Third International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WoSCx3) online. Our research group helped co-organize the workshop and bring together the serverless-computing community.
Feb 12, 2024 Our paper Dataplug: Unlocking Extreme Data Analytics with On-the-Fly Dynamic Partitioning of Unstructured Data has been accepted at CCGrid 2024!
Dec 15, 2023 I attended Middleware 2023 and WoSC9 in Bologna and presented our paper Glider: Serverless Ephemeral Stateful Near-Data Computation at Middleware.
Dec 04, 2023 I’ll be attending Middleware 2023 and the colocated 9th Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC9) in Bologna from December 11–15, where I’ll present our paper Glider: Serverless Ephemeral Stateful Near-Data Computation.
Oct 10, 2023 Our paper Glider: Serverless Ephemeral Stateful Near-Data Computation has been accepted at Middleware 2023!
Feb 01, 2023 I started a researcher position with the CloudLab research group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Dec 14, 2022 I successfully defended my PhD thesis, Towards Enhanced State Management for Serverless Computation, at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.