I am a PhD student in the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, advised by the professors Juan Carlos Moure and Antonio Espinosa. My research interests include computer architecture and parallel optimizations for heterogeneous HPC systems. Currently I am optimizing on GPU several bioinformatic algorithms, such as FM-Index and Myers, that are the building blocks for a wide number of bioinformatic applications. We are actively collaborating with the Algorithm Development Group from CNAG. I received an Phd Fellowship grant from UAB in 2011.

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    Boosting the FM-index on the GPU: effective techniques to mitigate random memory accesses
    Alejandro Chacón, Santiago Marco-Sola, Antonio Espinosa, Paolo Ribeca, Juan Carlos Moure
    TCBB - Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

    FM-index on GPU: a cooperative scheme to reduce memory footprint
    Alejandro Chacón, Santiago Marco-Sola, Antonio Espinosa, Paolo Ribeca, Juan Carlos Moure
    ISPA2014 - Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications 2014

    Thread-cooperative, bit-parallel computation of Levenshtein distance on GPU 

    ICS2014 – International Conference on Supercomputing 2014

    n-step FM-Index for faster pattern matching
    Alejandro Chacón, Juan Carlos Moure, Antonio Espinosa, Porfidio Hernández 
    ICCS2013 – International Conference on Computational Science 2013 

    Suffix-Array and FM-index analysis in Multi-ManyCore
    Alejandro Chacón, Pedro Erencia, Antonio Espinosa, Juan Carlos Moure, Porfidio Hernández
    JP2012 – Jornadas de Paralelismo 2012

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