Pere Barlet

I am a Full Professor with UPC BarcelonaTech and Scientific Director at the Barcelona Neural Networking Center (BNN). Between 2013-2018, I was co-founder and chairman at Talaia Networks, an AI-based cybersecurity startup. For this activity I received research valorization awards from both the Catalan Government and UPC, including the Fiber Entrepreneurs award to the best entrepreneur of the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB). My recent research activity has focused on the development of novel AI-based methods for network management, optimization, monitoring and cybersecurity. These methods have been integrated in several open-source and commercial products, such as Network Polygraph, Auvik Traffic Insights, Intel CoMo and SMARTxAC. My group and I are also considered pioneers in the application of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in the area of computer networks.