Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, PhD

Horacio González-Vélez, Ph.D., has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry and academia. Horacio joined the National College of Ireland to start the Cloud Competency Centre in 2012. He is currently an associate professor and directs the NCI’s cloud and data analytics infrastructure, post-graduate programs, and research and innovation initiatives. He is an academic representative to the Steering Group of Technology Ireland Innovation Forum/ICT Skillnet Ireland, a government agency that supports over 15,000 companies nationwide. Horacio started his career as a true dot-commer working in HPC systems engineering and product marketing for Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems. He later earned a Ph.D. and a postdoc in computer science at the University of Edinburgh. His research has focused on efficiently employing data-intensive HPC infrastructures to help in the solution of challenging problems in physical and life sciences.