Maicon Melo Alves

Maicon Melo Alves is a senior system analyst working with HPC systems at Petrobras, the Brazilian energy state company. He has over 25 years of experience in IT infrastructure, four published books, and over ten papers published in journals and conferences of HPC area.

With the advent of AI workloads, he got interested in understanding how HPC systems have been used to leverage the training process of these aplications. To better understand this topic, he completed in 2021 the MBA in Data Science of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO).

He obtained his DSc. degree in Computer Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and received his MSc. degree in Computer Science from Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ). He has earned the best paper award in 2015 and received in 2019 an honorable mention for his DSc. thesis in WSCAD, the foremost important HPC conference in Brazil.

Although working as a system analyst is his primary occupation, he also dedicate part of his time to coordinate and teach on graduate and undergraduate courses related to HPC, computer architecture, and IT infrastructure. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.