Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1996. Since 1997, she is with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil, where she is now Full Professor and Head of the Department. Prof. Melo is currently Member of the Council of the Brazilian Computer Society, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Parallel Processing (TCPP), IEEE Senior Member and CNPq/Brazil Researcher level 1C. Her research interests include High Performance Computing, Bioinformatics and Clouds. 
One of the PhD Thesis advised by Prof. Melo was awarded the Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science in Brazil in 2016. She is also recipient of the 2023 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award and the 2019 Wilkes Award for the Best Paper published at The Computer Journal in 2018. 
Prof. Melo serves as Associate Editor in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Future Generations Computing Systems. She also chaired many important conferences, such as IPDPS 2024 (General Co-Chair), HiPEAC 2025 (Program Chair), CCGrid 2025 (Program co-Chair), IPDPS 2019 (Program co-Chair), IEEE Cluster 2023 (co-Track Chair), Supercomputing (SC) 2022 (co-Track Chair) and Euro-Par 2020 (co-Track Chair). Prof. Melo was keynote speaker at prestigious conferences (Euro-Par 2021 and SBAC-PAD 2023) and in several international workshops. She coordinated international collaboration projects with Spain and Canada and participates/participated in several international projects with the European Commission, France and Germany, among others.