2026 Jordi Torres: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	44	7666	7445	102	100	159	6790

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Jordi Torres is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a specific focus on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Key topics addressed in their work include:

Human Pose and Action Recognition
Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Hearing Impairment and Communication
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Medical Image Segmentation Techniques

Among recent publications, several papers illustrate the scope and impact of their research efforts:

The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), 2022, Medical Image Analysis
How2Sign: A large-scale multimodal dataset for continuous American sign language, 2021, UPCommons (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
A closer look at referring expressions for video object segmentation, 2022, Multimedia Tools and Applications
Explore, discover and learn: unsupervised discovery of state-covering skills, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
RefVOS: A Closer Look at Referring Expressions for Video Object Segmentation, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Jordi Torres frequently collaborates with a set of coauthors who have contributed significantly to their research output. These include:

Xavier Giró-i-Nieto
Míriam Bellver
Josep Ll. Berral
Carles Ventura
Carina Silberer

Their publication venues are diverse but show a concentration in certain outlets, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Medical Image Analysis
2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)
UPCommons (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)

Best Publications

SalGAN: visual saliency prediction with generative adversarial networks

Junting Pan;Cristian Canton-Ferrer;Kevin McGuinness;Noel E. O'Connor

398
Citations
GreenHadoop: leveraging green energy in data-processing frameworks

Íñigo Goiri;Kien Le;Thu D. Nguyen;Jordi Guitart

391
Citations
GreenSlot: scheduling energy consumption in green datacenters

Íñigo Goiri;Kien Le;Md. E. Haque;Ryan Beauchea

378
Citations
Towards energy-aware scheduling in data centers using machine learning

Josep Ll. Berral;Íñigo Goiri;Ramón Nou;Ferran Julià

360
Citations
Characterizing Cloud Federation for Enhancing Providers' Profit

Inigo Goiri;Jordi Guitart;Jordi Torres

259
Citations
Resource-aware adaptive scheduling for mapreduce clusters

Jordà Polo;Claris Castillo;David Carrera;Yolanda Becerra

241
Citations
Skip RNN: Learning to Skip State Updates in Recurrent Neural Networks

Víctor Campos;Brendan Jou;Xavier Giró-i-Nieto;Jordi Torres

203
Citations
How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language

Amanda Duarte;Shruti Palaskar;Lucas Ventura;Deepti Ghadiyaram

180
Citations
PyCOMPSs: Parallel computational workflows in Python:

Enric Tejedor;Yolanda Becerra;Guillem Alomar;Anna Queralt

178
Citations
Intelligent Placement of Datacenters for Internet Services

Inigo Goiri;Kien Le;Jordi Guitart;Jordi Torres

172
Citations
Energy-Aware Scheduling in Virtualized Datacenters

Inigo Goiri;Ferran Julia;Ramon Nou;Josep Ll. Berral

151
Citations
Using Virtualization to Improve Software Rejuvenation

L.M. Silva;J. Alonso;J. Torres

141
Citations
Economic model of a Cloud provider operating in a federated Cloud

Íñigo Goiri;Jordi Guitart;Jordi Torres

129
Citations
Energy-efficient and multifaceted resource management for profit-driven virtualized data centers

íñigo Goiri;Josep Ll. Berral;J. Oriol Fitó;Ferran Julií

114
Citations
Matching renewable energy supply and demand in green datacenters

Íñigo Goiri;E. Haque;Kien Le;Ryan Beauchea

112
Citations
Hierarchical Object Detection with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Miriam Bellver;Xavier Giro-i-Nieto;Ferran Marques;Jordi Torres

105
Citations
Adaptive on-line software aging prediction based on machine learning

Javier Alonso;Jordi Torres;Josep Ll. Berral;Ricard Gavalda

105
Citations
Adaptive Scheduling on Power-Aware Managed Data-Centers Using Machine Learning

Josep Ll. Berral;Ricard Gavalda;Jordi Torres

97
Citations
Utility-based placement of dynamic Web applications with fairness goals

D. Carrera;M. Steinder;I. Whalley;J. Torres

95
Citations
Performance Management of Accelerated MapReduce Workloads in Heterogeneous Clusters

Jorda Polo;David Carrera;Yolanda Becerra;Vicenc Beltran

91
Citations
Using Virtualization to Improve Software Rejuvenation

L. Moura Silva;J. Alonso;P. Silva;J. Torres

72
Citations
How2Sign: A Large-scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language

Amanda Duarte;Shruti Palaskar;Deepti Ghadiyaram;Kenneth DeHaan

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduard Ayguadé Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Jesús Labarta Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Ricard Gavaldà Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Mateo Valero Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Malgorzata Steinder IBM (United States)

Rosa M. Badia Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Ferran Marques Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Ricardo Bianchini Microsoft (United States)

Thu D. Nguyen Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Xavier Martorell Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

External Links

Personal website of Jordi Torres Google Scholar page

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