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Future doctors: multinational training.
Marc Galceran is a FIB graduated who is working on his PhD Thesis within the ALBCOM group under professor Jordi Cortadella's supervision. Marc is back at UPC after being twice in the USA. In 2006 he followed an exchange program with Georgia Technology University in Atlanta and he is back now after a working gig at INTEL in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Westward ho!
Hillsboro
Learning about the student.
Marc Galceran
Not all Universities can boast of having prepared students who travel around the world and even more, they work abroad and they come back here with their experiences and knowledge enriching our research and our lives. Marc is one of those students.
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Tell us about your career...
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I imagine that working in the USA was very enriching for you. In fact you went there again a little later.
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| I studied Computer Science at FIB. When I was at second year I decided to collaborate with Jordi Cortadella on a course that took place during February, between terms. I felt pretty excited with my studies so I decided to take the masters in order to follow a PhD. At the end of my master I did a project related to Esterel Technologies. Esterel Technologies?
Esterel is a programming language to describe hardware at high level. Among others, it has been used to design and to program the hardware that controls some parts of the Airbus A380.Esterel is a language developed at the university. Gérard Berry, who was my Master's Thesis co-director, invented it. He is the scientific chief at the company that commercializes this language, Esterel Technologies. From Esterel you can generate Verilog, another language that is used to describe hardware at a lower level detail. The final goal of this process is to create a chip from the Verilog code. My research was focused on generating an elastic synchronous circuit and to do so I had to modify Esterel Technologies' compiler. Was it then when you were introduced to the research world for the first time?
No, in fact I had done some research abroad. I did an exchange program with Georgia Tech with a colleague of mine, Sergi Oliva. We went there the last term of my degree, from January to July 2006. [The Barcelona Computing School has a long standing student exchange agreement with Georgia Tech]. It was then, that I was introduced to the research world for the first time.What did you study during this first stage?
At Georgia Tech I studied Formal Methods applied to Bioinformatics and I published an article with professor Pete Manolios. |
Yes. I went to Hillsboro, a city near Portland in Oregon to work in at the Intel facility there. It was in June, 2007. I worked in an elastic circuits project. How were those five months for you?
Think about the fact that since it opened its first Oregon facility in 1976, Intel Oregon has grown and has become the biggest and the most complex Intel sites. Being part of a group of prestigious researchers from all over the world that worked there was a unique experience. I had already tasted the research world, however my stay at Intel gave me not just the energy to discover new hardware, but also showed me the benefits of those results. It was very exciting to see how my research was practically useful. We were not just improving academic knowledge; we were incorporating some of our innovations to new computers. And now, how do you imagine your future?
I am a easy going guy, so I think I will keep doing what I do... Although I love research I also have interest in companies. So, little by little... My actual goal is to finish my PhD studies that I have just started and later... we will see!. Very smart answer... I hope you are very lucky doing your PhD studies and that the neighbour continent welcomes you again! |
LSI and its globetrotters.
Today we have met Marc Galceran, a PhD student who goes on with his career incorporating international knowledge and experiences. LSI department PhD students do travel around the world and bring back their experiences and their willingness to tell us. So, if there are people in your group who can tell us an interesting story don't doubt and get in contact with us.
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