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Name Josep Maria Barbera
Label PhD Student
Email josep.barbera@csic.es

Work

  • 2023 - (6 months)

    Madrid

    Research Internship
    Center for Industrial Electronics - Technical University of Madrid
    Enhanced Neuroevolutionary Algorithms through GPU-based parallelization.
    • Configured a GPU microserver with 2 NVIDIA A30 GPUs and 24 CPUs.
    • Implemented CPU-GPU acceleration architecture using Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) and the multiprocessing library with Python.
  • 2022 - (4 months)

    Getafe, Madrid

    Research Initiation Fellowship
    IMDEA Materials Institute
    Contributed to research on computational oscillatory growth instability in directional solidifications.
    • Characterized oscillations and identified their conditions of occurrence through computational modeling.
    • Analyzed DNN (Dendritic Needle Network - C++ and Cuda based) simulations using Python.
    • Conducted intensive work in launching simulations on a cluster of GPUs and post-processing them to extract quantitative data using Jupyter Notebooks.

Education

  • Sept 2024 - Sept 2028
    PhD
    Center for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC)
    Autonomous Driving
  • Sept 2023 - Sept 2024
    MSc
    Technical University of Madrid
    Robotics
  • Sept 2017 - Sept 2023
    BSc
    Technical University of Madrid
    Industrial Technologies Engineering

Skills

Languages
C/C++
Python
Shell
Tools
VSCode
Matlab
Jupyter Notebook
Other
Git version-control
Latex
Linux

Volunteer

  • February 2023 - May 2023
    Laboratory Practice Monitor
    Manufacturing Engineering Group - Technical University of Madrid
    • Prepared the laboratory equipment along with safety measures.
    • Drafted practice scripts and rules for the use of practice tools.
    • Clarified doubts, maintained students' commitment to the completion of the laboratory tasks.