Pedro Valero-Lara is a Computer Scientist in the Programming Systems Group into the Advanced Computing Systems Research Section and Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Previously, he was a Sr. Research Engineer at Cray Scientific and Math Libraries group, where he led the efforts for LibSci-Acc library, the Cray library for scientific (BLAS and LAPACK) computing on accelerators. In Spain, he was the founder and lead of the "Linear Algebra and Math Libraries" group at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His work is part of several reference software packages for scientific computing (Kokkos, Cray/HPE LibSci-Acc, NVIDIA cuSparse, PLASMA, among others). Pedro was awarded by the IEEE-CS Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in HPC in 2020, the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship in 2018, FPI-CIEMAT scholarship in 2011 and Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2009.