# Josep Torrellas

Josep Torrellas
Saburo Muroga Professor
(217) 244-4148
torrella@illinois.edu
4231 Siebel Center for Comp Sci

## For More Information

- Josep Torrellas's home page

## Education

- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1992

## Research Interests

- Low Power Design
- Hardware and Software Reliability
- Parallel Processing
- Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
- Computer Architecture

## Research Areas

- Architecture, Compilers, and Parallel Computing

## Honors

- IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (2021)
- UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring (2017)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2016)
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2015)
- High-Impact Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) (2012)
- ACM Fellow (2010)
- IEEE Fellow (2004)

## Recent Courses Taught

- CS 533 (CSE 522) - Parallel Computer Architecture
- CS 534 - Adv Topics in Comp Arch
- CS 598 JT (CS 598 JTE) - Energy-Efficient Comp Architec

## Related News

Josep Torrellas group awarded IEEE Micro Top Picks and three Honorable Mentions from Computer Architecture Conferences
New Samsung, Sandia Grants Bring Ghose Closer to Processing-in-Memory Advancements
Pursuing a Rich Portfolio of Microelectronics Research
Torrellas group contributes three papers to ISCA, selected for Retrospective of ISCA 1996-2020
2023 Celebration of Excellence Highlights Powerful Illinois CS Community
New center based at Illinois will develop distributed computing technology for 2030 and beyond

## News Notes

- 3/26/2024

  Illinois computer science professor Josep Torrellas will be the keynote speaker at ISPASS, the premier conference on performance analysis of systems, on May 6, 2024, in Indianapolis. He will discuss the work of our JUMP2.0 ACE Center for Evolvable Computing team.

- 2/29/2024

  Illinois computer science professor Josep Torrellas is a recipient of The Grainger College of Engineering's 2024 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award. Kelley will be recognized formally at the Annual Engineering Awards Convocation in April.