Antón Rey Villaverde was born in La Coruña, Spain, in 1987. He graduated with a B.Eng./M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering (ICAI, 2010), with a B.Sc. in Physics (UCM, 2013). In 2019 he got his Ph.D in Computer Engineering about programming models for HPC.

He is currently developing a programming model (STEEL) as a postdoc.

His main research interests concerning computer science are:

• Programming models for high-performance computing
• GPU/accelerator/heterogeneous computing
• Generic, functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and parallel programming, and software engineering.

Other research interests concerning engineering and physics are:

• Operations research
• Mechanical engineering (fluid and structural mechanics)
• Computational physics
• Statistical mechanics