Josep Torrellas
Josep Torrellas
Professor
(217) 244-4148
4231 Siebel Center for Comp Sci

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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

  • Compilers
  • Computer architecture
  • Fault tolerance and reliability
  • Operating systems
  • Parallel processing
  • System modeling and measurement

Research Topics

  • Cognitive computing
  • Computational science and engineering
  • Cybersecurity and privacy
  • Data science and analytics
  • Data/Information Science and Systems
  • Distributed computing and storage systems
  • Machine learning
  • Wearable and mobile 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