Josep Torrellas
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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
Research Honors
- 2021: IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, "For contributions to energy efficient and programmable shared-memory multiprocessor architectures." (2021)
- 2016: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), "For contributions to shared-memory multiprocessors." (2016)
- 2015: IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, "For pioneering contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation." (2015)
- 2012: High-Impact Paper Award, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), "One of the 5 most cited papers in the first 30 years of ICCD (1983-2012)." (2012)
- 2010: ACM Fellow, "For contributions to shared-memory multiprocessors and thread-level speculation." (2010)
- 2004: IEEE Fellow, "For contributions to shared-memory multiprocessors." (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
News Notes
- 4/7/2026
Three papers were accepted at the 2026 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), a top computer architecture conference.
Two papers, led by CS professor Tianyin Xu in collaboration with CS professor Josep Torrellas and other groups, were accepted as Honorable Mentions in the IEEE MICRO Top Picks 2026 in Computer Architecture Conferences:
"EMT: An OS Framework for New Memory Translation Architectures” By Siyuan Chai, Jiyuan Zhang, Jongyul Kim, Alan Wang, Fan Chung, Jovan Stojkovic, Weiwei Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Josep Torrellas, Tianyin Xu
In collaboration with Microsoft: "Thermal and Power Management for LLM Inference in Cloud Platforms” By Jovan Stojkovic, Chaojie Zhang, Íñigo Goiri, Esha Choukse, Haoran Qiu, Rodrigo Fonseca, Josep Torrellas, Ricardo Bianchini - 3/31/2025
The paper "CXLfork: Fast Remote Fork over CXL Fabrics," by CS professors Tianyin Xu and Josep Torrellas, CS Postdoctoral Researcher Chloe Alverti, CS PhD students Burak Ocalan, Shashwat Jaiswal, and ECE PhD student Stratos Psomadakis, received the ASPLOS 2025 Best Paper Award, April 1, 2025 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- 3/11/2025
DynamoLLM: Designing LLM Inference Clusters for Performance and Energy Efficiency, a paper from a collaborative team of CS professor Josep Torrellas, CS PhD student Jovan Stojkovic and colleagues from Microsoft Azure Research - Systems, received the HPCA Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE Symposium on HPCA March 5 in Las Vegas, NV.
- 2/10/2025
CS professor Josep Torrellas and collaborators have received recognition for two papers. "Everywhere All at Once: Co-Location Attacks on Public Cloud FaaS" was selected as an IEEE Micro 2025 Top Pick in the Computer Architecture Conferences. The authors are Zirui Neil Zhao, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher, and Torrellas. "Untangle: A Principled Framework to Design Low-Leakage, High-Performance Dynamic Partitioning Schemes", was chosen as a Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security. Co-authors are Zhao, Morrison, Fletcher and Torrellas.
- 10/14/2024
CS PhD alumnus Zirui Neil Zhao, who was advised by CS professor Josep Torrellas, will be joining the University of Texas at Austin faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2025.
- 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.