I am currently a CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Chargé de recherche (that means researcher, more or less) at the IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) laboratory in Toulouse, France. Here I spend most of my time working at the MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver (MUMPS) project started a few years ago by Patrick Amestoy, Iain Duff and Jean-Yves L'Excellent. My interest are in High Performance Computing, parallel computing, linear algebra (numerical software in general).
Before moving to Toulouse (January 2008) I was a post-doc at INRIA Rhone-Alpes in Lyon (France) where I was a member of the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme (LIP).
Before that, I was a post-doc in the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) lead by Prof. Jack Dongarra at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. There I worked at the LAPACK and ScaLAPACK projects. Most of my research was focused on the implementation of linear algebra operations for multicore architectures.
Even before I was a Ph.D. student at Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione of University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Most of my Ph.D. work was related to the Parallel Sparse BLAS (PSBLAS) project started by Salvatore Filippone somewhere around 1999 and 2000.
