Gabriel Falcão
Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Research Areas: Energy-efficient parallel algorithms and architectures,
Gabriel Falcão (Senior Member, IEEE) graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto and received his PhD from the University of Coimbra in 2010 in parallel computer architectures applied to communications problems (error correction and LDPC codes). He is a Tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, and a Senior researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, in Portugal. In 2011/12 and again in 2017/18, he was a Visiting Professor at EPFL, Switzerland, where he developed work in the area of parallel computer architectures, trying to bridge the worlds of CPU, GPU, and FPGA parallel programming. In 2018 he became a Visiting Professor at ETHZ, Switzerland, where he developed pioneering work on processing-in-memory for DRAM systems. In the academic year of 2025-2026, Falcão is a Visiting Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.
Falcão's research interests include the development of novel quantum and parallel computing paradigms to deal with compute-intensive signal processing applications, in particular those related with data communications and medical image processing. He was the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award (together with J. Barreto) from Google Inc. in 2013-2014, and 2014-2015, and he is the PI of a CUDA Research Center at the Multimedia Signal Processing Lab, a R&D unit in Instituto de Telecomunicações hosted at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He participated in several projects funded by the European Commission, including SpaceRider and EuroHPC, or funded by FCT (he was the PI of one of them and co-PI of another), and P2020 in partnership with industry. In 2020, he was General Co-Chair of IEEE SiPS and Local Chair of Euro-Par. He successfully supervised more than 34 MSc students (completed) with four ongoing and five PhD students (all completed) and four ongoing. He has published over 130 papers in international journals and conferences, and holds an international patent (in Europe, USA, and Japan), commercially explored by Smith & Nephew. He is a member of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence, of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and an IEEE Senior Member. Gabriel is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Micro.