Fabrizio Gagliardi
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Fabrizio Gagliardi Independent Consultant Geneva, Switzerland Polytechnic University of Catalonia Spain
Former ACM Europe President and current EUACM chair Distinguished Research Director, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain – Senior advisor of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain Visiting professor, Gran Sasso Scientific Institute, L’Aquila, Italy Independent computing consultant, Geneva, Switzerland Other current positions: Founding member of the Research Data Alliance Organisational Advisory Board List of previous positions held positions: 2011-2015 member of the board of Informatics Europe 2009-2015 founding member and chair of the ACM European Council 2009-2013: Director, Microsoft External Research, for Europe, Middle East and Africa 2010-2012: Principal initiator and chair of the management board of the EU FP7 Cloud Computing Project VENUS-C 2005-2008: Microsoft, Director for Technical Computing for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America 2004-2005: Principal initiator and director of the EU funded project EGEE: Enabling Grid for E-sciencE 2001-2004: Principal initiator and project leader of the EU DataGrid project 2000-2002: Director of the CERN Summer School of Computing 1999-2013: Co-founder of the Global Grid Forum 1985-2000: Several technical and managerial positions at CERN and associated international laboratories 1983-1984: Visiting scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Stanford, California 1978-1982: Principal designer of several on-line data acquisition systems for physics experiments at CERN 1975-1977: Scientific Fellow at CERN Awards: 2013: ACM Presidential Award, for his instrumental role in creating and leading the ACM Europe Council, composed by some of the most distinguished computer scientists in Europe 2008: Best speaker award at the GridKa computing school in Karlsruhe, Germany (three years in a row) 1999: Price for best track speaker and best overall speaker at the EuroStorage international conference in Berlin. STATEMENT I am honored to have been asked to run for ACM Vice President. ACM is a strong organization. Some of that strength comes from recent efforts to be a truly international society. While much has been accomplished with ACM’s international initiatives (especially in Europe, India, and China), there is much more to do. I believe my experience in building ACM Europe, combined with the experience gained from being an active member of the European research community throughout my career, gives me the background needed to strengthen and grow ACM’s international agenda. Over the past seven years, I have been responsible for the launch and development of ACM Europe. I helped build the ACM Europe Council and, as chair, drove it to set an agenda for ACM in Europe. As a result of this effort, we have more chapters and members in Europe than at any point in ACM’s history. We have engaged with multiple organizations, particularly Informatics Europe, on important issues like computing/informatics education at the secondary level. We issued a joint report on issues in European informatics education and are co-leading and co-funding a two-year research project to really assess the state of pre-university informatics education throughout Europe. In addition to our efforts on education, we created ACM-W Europe to bring the agenda, resources, and vision of ACM-W to the European issue of women in computing. Several special events have been held, and ACM Europe is gaining traction on this important issue. Finally, I led the effort to create EUACM – ACM Europe’s policy arm. EUACM is modeled after USACM and is bringing ACM into important conversations and positioning ACM Europe as a privileged partner of the European Commission funding activity for computer science research and education in Europe. While we are off to a solid start, there is much more to do – not just in Europe, but throughout the world. My experience at CERN, Microsoft, and now the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, has given me a sense of how an international society should engage with the global computing community. I believe ACM can and should do more – both to build the initiatives we have started and to launch new efforts, particularly in Latin America. There is much to do at ACM. With your help and support, I believe we can bring ACM to a new level of presence and prominence in the international computing community. Download 33.19 Kb. Share with your friends:
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