Olivier Beaumont, Ph.D. holds a senior researcher position (Directeur de Recherche) at Inria since October 2008. He defended his PhD thesis in 1999 and his Habilitation in 2004. His main interests are in scheduling, load balancing, HPC and memory optimization and parallelization of training. He served as PC Chair (Algorithm Track) for many HPC conferences (SuperComputing, IPDPS, ICPP, HIPC,...) and he is acting as Associate Editor in Chief of JPDC (Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing). He is the author of more than 90 papers in international journals and conferences.