Bio :

Stéphane Requena is Director of Technology and Innovation at GENCI (France).
Previously he has been during 10 years in charge of the HPC facilities at Institut Français du Pétrole and involved into optimisation and parallelisation of oil & gas (geology, seismic, reservoir modeling) and automotive applications. He also worked at CS a French service company in parallelising applications in the field of energy for EDF and CEA. At GENCI since 2007 he has been involved in several European projects including PRACE aisbl (as member of the Board of Directors), PRACE implementation projects (Prace-xIP), PPI4HPC (Public Procurement of HPC Innovative Solutions), Mont-Blanc (toward ARM based architectures used for HPC), EPI and EUPEX (toward designing European Processor technologies), EESI (European Exascale Software Initiative) and EXDCI (European eXtreme Data and Computing Initiative) in relation to the scientific and industrial applications roadmaps.
He is also currently involved into EuroHPC as Chair of INFRAG and into the Jules Verne consortium toward the 2nd EuroHPC Exascale system called Alice Recoque.
At GENCI he is also in charge of the development of innovative services related to the use of AI, quantum computing, use of urgent computing for decision making, link with scientific instruments and the technical part of GENCI’s procurements for its HPC, quantum and storage facilities.