Previously he was Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Principal Research Scientist and Manager at Huawei Research, Research Assistant Professor and Postdoc at Virginia Tech. He earned a PhD in Industrial Engineering (specialization Nuclear Fusion) from the University of Padua, Italy, and an MS and BS in Computer Engineering from the same University. Antonio Barbalace’s research interests include all aspects of system software, embracing hypervisors, operating systems, runtime libraries, and compilers/linkers, for emerging highly-parallel and heterogeneous computer architectures, including near data processing platforms and new generation interconnects with coherent shared memory. His research seeks answers about how to architect or re-architect the entire software stack to ease programmability, portability, enable improved performance and energy efficiency, determinism, fault tolerance, and security. His research work appeared at top systems venues including EuroSys, ASPLOS, VEE, ICDCS, Middleware, EMSOFT, HotOS, HotPower, and OLS.