David Carrera
Co-founder, CTO and Chairman of Nearby Computing
I work on how distributed infrastructure is run as one system. For fifteen years that was research on data centre workloads; since 2018 it has been Nearby Computing, the company I co-founded to govern AI end-to-end, across networks, from the cloud to the edge.
Based in Barcelona
Career
- 2008PhD, UPCHeterogeneous workload management in clouds
- 2010IBM Faculty AwardFor research on Big Data workload management
- 2011Associate Professor, UPCComputer Architecture Department
- 2012IBM T.J. WatsonPostDoc Blue Gene Active Storage (BGAS), Yorktown Heights, NY
- 2014Head of group, BSCData-Centric Computing research group
- 2015ERC Starting GrantHiEST: Generative AI for Data Center Optimization
- 2015ICREA AcademiaExcellence Award for Faculty Members
- 2018Betancourt medalRoyal Academy of Engineering Award
- 2018Nearby ComputingCo-founded as a spin-off of BSC/UPC
- 2018Pre-seed roundThe founding round
- 2020Seed roundStrategic investors join the company
- 2024Series ALed by venture capital, joined by strategic shareholders
- NowCTO and ChairmanNearby Computing
Index
- Aboutbio and Nearby Computing
- Careerexperience, awards and grants, education
- Researchbackground, themes, selected publications
- Technologyhow I think about the systems I build
- Blogwhere I post my thoughts about technology