Dr. Erwan Raffin is the collaborative project leader of the Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP) at Eviden. He earned his PhD in computer science in 2011 from the University of Rennes 1, France, in collaboration with Technicolor and the Cairn INRIA project team. His career took off at CAPS Enterprise, where for three years, he was at the forefront of developing cutting-edge software for performance application tuning in the HPC domain. He then worked at INSA Rennes (IETR CNRS) in the Image Group as a research engineer on low-power video decoders. In 2016, he joined Eviden’s CEPP, diving into the Weather and Climate community and their HPC applications. Today, he continues to drive innovation and collaboration, coordinating projects that push the boundaries of high-performance programming.