Biography
Felipe Portella has been working at Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (PETROBRAS) since 2007, currently serving as an IT Consultant specializing in high-performance computing (HPC) for petroleum reservoir simulation workloads. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2008) and earned his PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech-UPC) in 2024, conducted in partnership with the Data-Centric Computing group of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). His current focus includes cloud bursting challenges in HPC environments and the Academic HPC strategic alliance for Petrobras R&D projects.
Interests
- High Performance Computing
- Cloud Computing
- Distributed Computing
- Machine Learning
- Optimization
- Reservoir Simulation
Education
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PhD, Computer Architecture, 2018 - 2024
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
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Postgraduate in Petroleum Engineering, 2013
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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MSc, Computer Science, 2008
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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BSc, Computer Science, 2003
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)