Miquel Vidal received the BSc degree in computer engineering and the MSc degree in high performance computing from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Since 2015, he has been with the Programming Models group, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, first as a resident student and currently as a research engineer. His research interests include parallel architectures, multiprocessor systems, and heterogeneous and reconfigurable solutions for high-performance computing, as well as their application in the bioinformatics field.