He is currently on leave at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His research focuses on microarchitecture and low-level compiler optimizations. From 2002 through 2007, Daniel was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers. In 2005 Daniel took sabbatical leave at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In 2008 he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Rutgers. Daniel earned his B.S. (1992) and M.S. (1994) in Computer Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio and his Ph.D. (2002) in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an NSF CAREER award recipient, an ACM Senior Member, and General Chair of the 2011 HPCA conference.