Josep Torrellas
American computer scientist
Josep Torrellas (born 1963 in Montblanc, Spain) is a computer scientist and the Saburo Muroga Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He directs the SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 ACE Center for Evolvable Computing. His research focuses on computer architecture, parallel computing, and memory systems.
Education
He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1986 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992. His doctoral dissertation was titled Multiprocessor Cache Memory Performance: Characterization and Optimization.
Academic career and research
After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University, Torrellas joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in the Department of Computer Science, which later became the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science.
Torrellas's research focuses on computer architecture, particularly shared-memory multiprocessor systems and techniques for increasing parallelism in computing systems. His work has examined issues related to scalable multiprocessor architectures, memory consistency, and mechanisms for improving the performance and reliability of parallel programs.
A major area of his research involves thread-level speculation (TLS), a technique that enables parallel execution of code segments whose dependencies are not fully known in advance. His research group explored speculative multithreading and its applications to synchronization, debugging data races, memory monitoring, and fault tolerance.
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