Presenter

Rafael A. Herrera Guaitero is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware in the US. His research interest includes High-Performance Computing, Runtime Systems, and Compilers. The main objective of his research is to make programs run faster, perform more reliably, and use resources more efficiently on current and future computing architectures. Rafael holds a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia with an emphasis in the design of digital systems. He has worked as a Freelancer, Designing and implementing software for embedded devices and systems, and as a Software Developer at Accenture, coding programs that meet the need of the clients. Currently, Rafael is working as a Research Assistant at the Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory at the University of Delaware, working in CODIR, which is the Codelet Model domain-specific language extension and intermediate representation built using the already existing Multi-Level Intermediate Representation compiler infrastructure. Moreover, Rafael is actively collaborating with professors and students at his University of Colombia, co-directing the degree work of undergraduate students in Electronic Engineering. In addition to his work and research, Rafael enjoys watching and playing sports, dancing, and hanging out with friends.