Luis M. Vaquero
Bristol
Biography
Previously, I worked in Telefonica's Labs (third largest telecom in the world) and I was assistant professor (part time) at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Before that I was a visiting associate at several U.S. universities. I hold a B.Sc. in Electronics, M.Sc. in Telecom Engineering and ICT from the University of Valladolid and a M.Sc in Pharmacology and a Ph.D. in Medicine from the University Complutense of Madrid.
I have published 28 JCR papers (including the second best journal in cardiology and the World's 55th most cited article in computer science in 2009) and several conference papers (including the top one in CSCL) received more than 1400 citations
in the last 5 years in engineering (cluster, grid, Cloud and
distributed systems) and its application to biomedical research
(pharmacology and cardiac electrophysiology) and Computer Supported
Collaborative Systems (CSCL).
Research interests
My goal is to track down really interesting, complex, interdisciplinary, difficult problems, then solve them with practical application to corporate daily life. I love to work with in a collaborative, cutting-edge environment on advanced prototypes and real world working systems, building solutions to the upcoming problems in computing. I'm particularly interested in large scale infrastructure/platforms for data analysis and real time systems as well as collaborative software and social networks. I also have tons of fun in applying my experimental prototypes to another fields like biomedicine and education.
Awards
1. GBox patent selected by Gartner among the 5 most innovative products in 2010.
2. 55th top most cited article in computer science in 2009, according to CiteSeerX.
3. National Award to the best Ph.D. dissertation in Medicine. 2009.
4. Best presentation in the 28th Congress of the
Spanish Pharmacological Society. “Effects of simvastatin on cardiac
hKv1.5, Kv4.3, and calcium currents”. Vaquero M., Núñez L., Gómez R., Caballero R., Tamargo J, Delpón E. Santiago de
Compostela, 2006.
5. Accesit to the best oral communication in
the XXXVIII Congress of the Spanish Cardiological Society. “Efectos
de la atorvastatina sobre las corrientes iónicas
responsables de la repolarización humana, hKv1.5 y Kv4.3”. Vaquero M., Núñez L., Gómez R., Caballero R., Delpón E, Tamargo J. Barcelona, 2005.
6. “Juan Abello” Award to the best research project. “Effects of atorvastatin on the potassium currents involved in human atrial repolarization”. Vaquero M., Núñez L., Caballero R., Gómez R., Delpón E. Madrid, 2005.
7. Spanish Cardiology Society Award to the best research project
for the work titled: “Efectos del óxido nítrico sobre las
corrientes que controlan la repolarización auricular”.
Juan Tamargo Menéndez, Eva Delpón Mosquera, Ricardo
Caballero Collado, Ricardo Gómez García, Lucía Núñez Fernández and
Miguel Vaquero González. Barcelona, 2005.
9. FPU Scholarship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2004 to the best 15 graduates in computer science and electrical engineering in the country.
10. Freshmen scholarship for top scoring students in high school.
Publications
You may want to have a look at my Google Scholar to get an approximate idea on the number of citations for each paper below.
Articles in Journals
Sae-Lor S.*, Vaquero LM.*, Murray P. In-NetDC: the Cloud in Core Networks. IEEE Communication Letters. In Press.
Vaquero LM., Morán D., Galán F., Alcaraz-Calero JM. Towards Runtime Reconfiguration of Application Control Policies in the Cloud. Journal of Network and System Management (JNMS). In Press.
Vaquero LM., Rodero-Merino L., Buyya R. Cloud Scalability: Building the Millennium Falcon. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Guest Editorial). In Press. 2012.
Yamazaki M., Mironov S., Taravant C., Brec J., Vaquero LM., Bandaru K., Mahnesh U., Avula R., Honjo H., Kodama I., Berenfeld O., Kalifa J. Heterogeneous Atrial Wall Thickness and Stretch Promote Scroll Waves Anchoring during Atrial Fibrillation <cite><abbr title="Cardiovascular Research">Cardiovasc Res</abbr> (In Press) published online January 6, 2012 doi:10.1093/cvr/cvr357 </cite>% Included computational work
Rodero-Merino L., Vaquero LM. Muresan A., Caron E., Desprez F. Building Safe PaaS Clouds: a Survey on Security in Multitenant Software Platforms. Computers & Security. ISSN: 0167-4048, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2012, Pages 96–108.
Vaquero LM.*, Sae-Lor S.*, Audsin D., Murray P., Wainwright N. Sampling ISP Backbone Topologies for Realistic Traffic Emulation. IEEE Communication Letters. ISSN: 1089-7798. , vol. 16(2), pp.72-74, 0doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2011.120211.112034
Vaquero LM. Educloud: On Applying and Evaluating IaaS and PaaS Cloud Technologies to a Computer Science Course for Advanced Students. IEEE Transactions on Education. 54(4): 590-598 (2011).
Vaquero LM., Cáceres J., Morán D. The Challenge of Service level Scalability for the Cloud. International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, 1(1), 34-44, January-March 2011
Vaquero LM., Rodero-Merino L. Buyya R. Dynamically Scaling Applications in the Cloud. ACM Computer Communication Review. Volume 41 Issue 1, January 2011.
Vaquero LM., Rodero-Merino L. Morán D. Locking the Sky: A Survey on IaaS Cloud Security. Computing. Springer. Volume 91, Number 1, 93-118, DOI: 10.1007/s00607-010-0140-x
Yamazaki M., Vaquero M., Honjo H., Kodama I., Jalife J., Kalifa J. Role of the Left Atrial Anatomy in the Maintenance of Three-Dimensional Scroll Waves in Acute, Stretch-Related and Cholinergic Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of Arrhythmia
2011.
2010
Rodero-Merino L, Vaquero LM, Gil V, Galán F, Fontán J; Montero RS; Llorente IM. From Infrastructure Delivery to Service Management in Clouds. Future Generation Computer Systems ISSN: 0167-739X, Volume 26, Issue 8, October 2010, Pages 1226-1240 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2010.02.013).
Rodero-Merino L., Vaquero LM, Cáceres J., Hierro J. SOA and Cloud Technologies, Two Pieces of the Same Puzzle. Full Paper. Upgrade (professional Journal), ISSN: 1684-5285, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 25-29, August 2010. Cepis. Online
Lindner M., Vaquero LM., RoderoMerino L., Cáceres J. Cloud Economics: Dynamic Business Models for the Cloud Market. International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS). ISSN: 1746-0972. Volume 5, Issue 4, pp 373-392, January 2010
Gonzalez C, Vaquero LM, LópezLópez JR, PérezGarcía MT. Oxygen sensitive potassium channels in chemoreceptor cell physiology: making a virtue of necessity. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Oct;1177:8288. % Included computational work
Gómez R, Caballero R, Barana A, Amorós I, Calvo E, López JA, Klein H, Vaquero M, Osuna L, Atienza F, Almendral J, Pinto A, Tamargo J, Delpón E. Nitric oxide increases cardiac IK1 by nitrosylation of cysteine 76 of Kir2.1 channels. Circ Res. 2009;105:383392. % Included computational work
Yamazaki M., Vaquero M., Hou L., Campbell K., Zlochiver S., Klos M., Mironov S., Berenfeld O., Honjo H., Kodama I., Jalife J., Kalifa J. Mechanisms of Stretch Induced Atrial Fibrillation in the Presence and the Absence of AdrenoCholinergic Stimulation: Interplay between Rotors and Focal Discharges. Heart & Rhythm Journal. 2009;6:10091017. % Included computational work
Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Amorós I., Barana A., de Prada T., Macaya C., Maroto L., Rodríguez R., Caballero R., LópezFarré A., Tamargo J., Delpón E. NO inhibits Kv4.3 and human cardiac transient outward potassium current (Ito). Cardiovasc Res. 2009;80:37584.
Radicke S*, Vaquero M*, Caballero R, Gómez R, Núñez L, Tamargo J, Ravens U, Wettwer E, Delpón E. Effects of MiRP1 and DPP6 betasubunits on the blockade induced by flecainide on Kv4.3/KchIP2 channels. Br J Pharmacol. 2008;154;774786. (* Equal Contribution). % Included computational work
Vaquero M., Calvo D., Jalife J. Cardiac Fibrillation: From Ion Channels to Rotors in the Human Heart. Heart & Rhythm Journal. 2008;5:872879.
Vaquero M.*, Caballero R.*, Núñez L., Gómez R., Tamargo J., Delpón E. Effects of atorvastatin and simvastatin on atrial plateau currents. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2007;42:931945. (* Equal Contribution). % Included computational work
Vaquero M., Gómez R, Caballero R., Núñez L., Tamargo J., Delpón E. Mecanismo de acción de la ivabradina. Rev. Esp. Cardiol. 2007; 7 (Supl C): 3245.
Tamargo J., Caballero R., Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Delpón E. Lipid lowering therapy with statins: a new approach to antiarrhythmic therapy. Pharmacol Ther. 2007;114:107126.
Tamargo J., Caballero R., Núñez L., Gómez R., Vaquero M., Delpón E. Genetically engineered mice as a model for studying cardiac arrhythmias. Front Biosc. 2007;12:2238.
Caballero R., Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Delpón E., Tamargo J. Farmacología de los ácidos grasos omega 3. Rev. Esp. Cardiol. 2006; 6 (Supl. D): 319.
Tamargo J., Caballero R., Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Delpón E. Características farmacológicas de los ARAII. ¿Son todos iguales? Rev. Esp. Cardiol. 2006; 6 (Supl. C): 1024.
Núñez L., Caballero R., Gómez R., Vaquero M., Delpón E., Tamargo J. Mecanismo de acción de la eplerenona. Rev. Esp. Cardiol. 2006; 6 (Supl. B): 3147.
Tutor AS., Delpón E., Caballero R., Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Tamargo J., Mayor F. Jr., Penela P. Association of 1433 proteins to Beta 1adrenergic receptors modulates Kv11.1 K+ channel activity in recombinant systems. Mol Bio Cell. 2006;17:46664674.
Tamargo J., Caballero R., Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Delpón E. Efectos del óxido nítrico sobre la función cardíaca. Rev. Esp. Cardiol. 2006; 6 (Supl. A):320.
Núñez L.*, Vaquero M.*, Gómez R., Caballero R., MateosCáceres P., Macaya C., Iriepa I., Gálvez E., LópezFarré A., Tamargo J., Delpón E. Nitric oxide blocks hKv1.5 channels by Snitrosylation and by a cyclic GMPdependent mechanism. Cardiovasc Res. 2006;72:8089. (* Coautores). % Included computational work
2005
Gómez R., Núñez L., Caballero R., Vaquero M., Tamargo J., Delpón E. Spironolactone and its main metabolite canrenoic acid, block hKv1.5, Kv4.3 and KCNQ1 + KCNE1 channels. Br P Pharmacol. 2005; 146:146161. % Included computational work
2003
Conference papers:
D. Moran, L.M. Vaquero, F. Galan “Elastically Ruling the Cloud: Specifying Application’s Behavior in Federated Clouds”, 4<sup>th</sup> IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011), July 2011, Washington DC, USA.
MuñozFrutos H., Kotsiopoulos I., Vaquero LM., RoderoMerino L. Enhancing Service Selection by semantic QoS. Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009); Heraklion, Greece, May-June 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 978-3-642-02120-6. Volume 5554, pp. 565-577.
Galán F., Sampaio A., RoderoMerino L., Loy I., Gil V., Vaquero LM., Wusthoff M. Service Specification in Cloud Environments Based on Extensions to Open Standards. Fourth International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE 2009);
2008
Thijs Metsch, Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Maik A. Lindner, Philippe Massonet: Facing Services in Computational Clouds. High Performance Computing Workshop 2008: 251-266
Vaquero González LM, Hernández Leo D., Simmross Watemberg F., Bote Lorenzo M., Asensio Pérez JI, Dimitriadis Y., and Vega G. The Oportunity of Grid Services for CSCL Application Development. Proceedings of the 13th. Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Networkbased Processing. Lugano, Switzerland, February2005.
Bote Lorenzo, M.L., Vaquero González, L.M., Vega Gorgojo, G., Dimitriadis, Y., Asensio Pérez, J.I., Gómez Sánchez, E., Hernandez-Leo, D. A Tailorable Collaborative Learning System that Combines OGSA Grid Services and IMS-LD Scripting. Proceedings of the X International Workshop on Groupware, CRIWG 2004, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 3198, 305-321, San Carlos, Costa Rica, Septiembre 2004.
Bote Lorenzo, M.L., Vaquero González, L.M., Vega Gorgojo, G., Asensio Pérez, J.I., Gómez Sánchez, E., Dimitriadis, Y. GRIDCOLE: A Grid Collaborative Learning Environment. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004), Workshop on Collaborative Learning Applications of Grid Technology, CLAG 2004. 1:105112. Chicago, EEUU, April2004.
Bote Lorenzo, M.L., Asensio Pérez, J.I., Vega Gorgojo, G., Vaquero González, L.M., Gómez Sánchez, E., Dimitriadis, Y. Grid Computing and ComponentBased Software Engineering in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2004. 3036,495–498. Cracovia, Poland, June2004.
Bote Lorenzo, M.L., Vaquero González, L.M.,Vega Gorgojo, G., Dimitriadis, Y., Asensio Pérez, J.I., Gómez Sánchez, E., Hernández Leo, D. A Tailorable Collaborative Learning System that Combines OGSA Grid Services and IMSLD Scripting 2004. 3198:305–321. San Carlos, Costa Rica, September2004.
BoteLorenzo, M. L., Dimitriadis, Y., GómezSánchez, E., AsensioPérez, J. I., VaqueroGónzalez, L. M., and VegaGorgojo, G.,aplicaciones CSCL basadas en componentes. Actas de las Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática 2003. 575–576. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, September2003.
Bote Lorenzo, M.L., Asensio Pérez, J.I., Dimitriadis, Y., Gómez Sánchez, E., Vaquero González, L.M., Vega Gorgojo, G. Grid Computing and ComponentBased Software Engineering for CSCL. Proceedings of the Workshop on Group work and Collaborative Learning: experiences and prospects. X Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, TGACEPCAEPIA'03. 2003; 10:5964. San Sebastián, November2003.
Book Chapters:
Thijs T., Vaquero LM., Rodero-Merino L., Massonet P., Lindner M. Cloud computing: definition, challenge and business models In: High Speed and Large Scale Computing. ISBN: 978-1-60750-073-5, edited by IOS Press, July 2009. Part of chapter 4, pp. 251-266.
Cáceres J., Vaquero LM., Rodero-Merino L., Polo A., Hierro J. "Service Scalability over the Cloud". In: Handbook of Cloud Computing. Editors: B. Fuhrt and A. Escalante. Springer 1st Edition., 2010, XIX, 634 p. 230 illus., Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-4419-6523-3.
Vaquero LM., Rodero-Merino L., Lindner M., Chapman C., Galán F., Cáceres J. "Principles, Methodology and Tools for Engineering Cloud Computing Systems". In: Advanced Design Approaches to Emerging Software Systems: Principles, Methodology and Tools. IGI Global.
2007
Tamargo J., Vaquero M., Núñez L. Hipertensión arterial. In: Principios de Fisiopatología para la Atención Farmacéutica. Plan Nacional de Formación Continuada 2007. (Ed). Consejo General de Colegios de Farmaceúticos.
Full Books:
Vaquero LM, Caceres J, Hierro JJ. Open Source Cloud Computing Systems: Practices and Paradigms. IGI Global. ISBN-10: 1466600985 | ISBN-13: 978-1466600980 | Publication Date: January 31, 2012 | Edition: 1
2008
Tamargo J., Caballero R., Cogolludo A., Gómez R., Núñez L., Vaquero M., Delpón E. Interacciones de fármacos cardiovasculares. (Ed). Momento Médico Iberoamericana, S.L. Madrid.
Patents
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Professional activities
Technical Program Committee:</pre>
3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2013)
2012
Guest Editor for:
Wiley's Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience: Special Issue on Cloud Scalability.
Future generation computer systems. Special issue on Cloud Monitoring Systems.
Technical Program Committee:
18th IEEE Conference on Networks (ICON) 2012.
The Third International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2012)
2nd Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER). 2012.
Second International Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS), http://mocs.deis.unibo.it/
International Conference on Computer Convergence Technology
Board Reviewer:
International Journal of Computer Networks
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International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing.
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2011
Editorial Advisory Board for:
Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice
Chief Editor for:
Open Source Cloud Computing Systems: Practices and Paradigms.
Technical Program Committee:
2nd Conference on cloud computing services and science (CLOSER 2012)
8<sup>th</sup> international Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-2011)
International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ISOC) 2011.
International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing
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Ad hoc reviewer:
- Information Sciences (Elsevier's Journal).
- Journal of Network Management systems (Elsevier's Journal).
- Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier's Journal).
- International Journal of Next Generation Computing
- Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011). http://mocs.deis.unibo.it/
- 2nd International Conference on Computer and Communication technology. http://www.mnnit.ac.in/iccct2011
Board and reviewer for:
- The second Workshop on Provisioning and Management of Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud
Computing (PROMASC'2011). To be held together with the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ISOC) 2011.
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- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
- First International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010)
Program Committee for:
- First International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010)
Board and reviewer for:
- The First Workshop on Provisioning and Management of Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud
Computing (PROMASC'2010)