ABSTRACT
Josep Torrellas is a Professor at the Departments of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is the Director of the Center for Programmable Extreme Scale Computing, and past Director of the Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC). He is a Fellow of IEEE (2004) and ACM (2010). He received the 2015 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, for “Pioneering contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation”, and the ICCD High-Impact Paper Award for “One of the 5 most cited papers in the first 30 years of ICCD”. He has served as the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) (2005-2010) and as a Council Member of CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) (2011-2014). He was a Willett Faculty Scholar at UIUC (2002-2009).
