Albert Alcoz
Senior Performance Research Engineer at NVIDIA
Zollikon, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Alcoz is a Senior Performance Research Engineer at NVIDIA with nine years of experience at the intersection of high-performance networking and AI infrastructure. He profiles and optimizes large-scale GPU clusters, focusing on collective communications, HCAs, and switches to squeeze out predictable performance for AI workloads. A PhD from ETH Zurich, his award-winning dissertation advanced in-network congestion management with practical security and performance implications, and he has hands-on experience deploying data-plane defenses and cloud egress fairness mechanisms from internships and visiting scholar roles. Albert blends deep research rigor with production-facing tooling and benchmarks, making him fluent in both theoretical networking and real-world performance engineering. Based in Zurich, he combines broad international research collaborations (Berkeley, Cloudflare, Georgia Tech) with the pragmatic goal of turning subtle network effects into measurable cluster gains.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Thesis, Computer Science, 10/10 with Honors, Master's Thesis, Computer Science, 10/10 with Honors at ETH ZurichInternational Summer Program, International Business, 9.5/10, International Summer Program, International Business, 9.5/10 at ESADE Business & Law SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBachelor's Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9.5/10, Bachelor's Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9.5/10 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at ETH ZürichHigh School, Technology, Graduated with Honors, 9.2/10, High School, Technology, Graduated with Honors, 9.2/10 at Fundació Collserola: Frederic Mistral - Tècnic Eulàlia
Spanish, English, Catalan, German, Italian
Github Skills (16)
alarm10
clock10
strict10
network-security9
robotics9
computer-vision8
networking8
natural-language-processing8
artificial-intelligence7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
deep-neural-networks4
facebook-messenger1
nodejs1
facebook1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
albertgran/Next-Generation-5G-OFDM-Based-Modulations
Dec 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
albertgran/netdeadlines
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
:alarm_clock: Networking Conference Deadline Countdowns
Contributions:1 review, 57 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
clocknetworkingdeadlinesnetwork-programmabilityalarm
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