Awards and Honors

2011

  • Mateo Valero selected as one of the most prominent Hispanic-American scientists for their important research in Mathematics or in the use of Mathematics
  • Maja Etinski, Julita Corbalán, Jesús Labarta and Mateo Valero received the Best Paper Award at The 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
  • DAMA-UPC research group has won the "Barcelona Digital" award in the section "Universities, Public Administrations and Institutions" with the project "Recomana".
  • Luis Barguñó, enrolled in Master CANS, member of the team than won the prize "UPC-Barcelona World Race"
  • A project of Professor Josep Lluis Larriba has been selected in the "digital learning environment" workpackage of the RecerCaixa2010 framework,
  • Mateo Valero Cortés awarded as Honorary Doctor by the Universidad de Zaragoza
  • The newspaper "El Mundo" includes Mateo Valero in the list of 25 most powerful Spanish scientists for 2011

2010

  • Àlex Ramírez receives a young researcher award
  • David Carrera, recipient of the 2010 IBM Faculty Award
  • Jorge García Vidal and the Ph.D. student David Fusté Vilella have received the "Premi UPC de Valorització de la Recerca 2009" (UPC's technology-transfer award) to the best spin-off
  • Mateo Valero Cortés awarded as Honorary Doctor by the Universidad Veracruzana (México)
  • Mateo Valero Cortés receives the "2009 Harry H. Goode Award"
  • Antonio González Colás awarded within the National Computer-Science Awards
  • Professors at DAC receive a quality award for teaching
  • The newspaper "El Mundo" includes Mateo Valero in the list of 25 most influential Spanish scientists for 2010