Patricia Arroba is a Telecommunications Engineer and holds a PhD in Electronic Systems from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Since 2023, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at UPM. In 2017, she completed her doctoral studies, receiving cum laude recognition and the extraordinary doctoral award.

She has obtained two HiPEAC (European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) grants for research stays at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2014-15, 2022-23), as well as a European Commission grant for a stay at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2017-18).

Her research is centered on the modeling, simulation, and optimization of infrastructures in edge and cloud computing, with the objective of enhancing the sustainability of the deployment and operation of critical applications. In this field, her work considers the consumption of computing and cooling equipment, as well as the management of low-power modes and workloads. The European Commission has identified energy efficiency in data centers as a priority area, promoting a combination of instruments, legislation, and new initiatives to improve energy efficiency, climate neutrality, and sustainability in data centers.

In this area of research, she has developed thermal and power models using machine learning techniques, modeling and simulation frameworks, and optimization algorithms under dynamic operating conditions. Her contributions address topics of interest in the scientific community, including new immersion cooling technologies, the edge computing paradigm as an enabling technology for critical IoT applications, energy efficiency, and the generation of synthetic data for training optimization algorithms.