Jack Márquez is a Computer Engineer and a specialist in computer security. He is currently pursuing his PhD in engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente de Santiago de Cali in Colombia. He joined the BISITE group to complete his doctoral thesis and will stay with us until the end of May, by which time he hopes to have completed his research.

Jack is working on the final part of his thesis, which involves improving the performance of heterogeneous storage systems in HPC Cloud systems using efficient storage algorithms that are supported by statistical models.

The migration of scientific applications or HPC (High Performance Computing) to Cloud Computing environments is becoming more frequent. However, such migration encounters several difficulties; due to the overhead caused by the virtualization of resources, HPC applications experience a reduction in their performance, file systems and communication technologies, among others. 

To address this problem, Jack is developing a statistical model based on Extreme Value Theory (EVT) that allows to predict the performance of HPC applications that use heterogeneous Cloud Computing storage systems. The model then provides the efficient storage algorithm with these predictions, the algorithm is in charge of deciding in which type of storage device (from those available in the Cloud) to store the data, aiming to reduce the overhead caused by virtualization.

At our group, we work on projects that involve the use of a wide range of technologies. I hope that your stay at BISITE will give you the knowledge you need to successfully complete your research.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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