Joel Fuentes was born in San Carlos, Región de uble, Chile, in 1986. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Universidad del Bío Bío, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Irvine, USA. From 2012 to 2014, he was a lecturer at the Universidad del BíoBío. In 2014, he started his Ph.D., where he has worked as a research assistant and collaborated with important companies and labs, such as CERN, Dell EMC and Intel. He is the author of several research articles and holds two patents. His research interests include parallel computing, high-performance computing, concurrent data structures and compilers. Mr. Fuentes was a recipient of the JISBD’s Best Paper Award in 2011, Innova Bío-Bío Award in 0 , and invited scholar at the ACM Turing Award in 2017.