2026 Josep Torrellas: 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	70	1899	1839	962	925	361	16333

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2015 - Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society For pioneering contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation
2010 - ACM Fellow For contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation.
2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to shared-memory multiprocessors.

Overview

Josep Torrellas is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in Computer Science, with a focus spanning several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Signal Processing, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various topics such as Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Security and Verification in Computing, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, and Interconnection Networks and Systems.

Josep Torrellas has published extensively, with recent papers including:

Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data, 2020, IEEE Micro
MicroScope: Enabling Microarchitectural Replay Attacks, 2020, IEEE Micro
Towards Greener LLMs: Bringing Energy-Efficiency to the Forefront of LLM Inference, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
Speculative Taint Tracking (STT), 2021, Communications of the ACM
Control Systems for Computing Systems: Making computers efficient with modular, coordinated, and robust control, 2020, IEEE Control Systems

Their frequent co-authors include:

Gerasimos Gerogiannis
Christopher W. Fletcher
Jovan Stojkovic
Mengjia Yan
Adam Morrison

Josep Torrellas has contributed to several prominent venues where their work has been published. These include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Micro
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Control Systems
IEEE Transactions on Communications

Throughout their career, Josep Torrellas has received multiple awards recognizing their contributions. These include being named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016, receiving the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 2015 for contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation, being named an ACM Fellow in 2010 for similar contributions, and earning IEEE Fellow status in 2004 for contributions to shared-memory multiprocessors.

Best Publications

VARIUS : A Model of Process Variation and Resulting Timing Errors for Microarchitects

Smruti R. Sarangi;Brian Greskamp;Radu Teodorescu;Jun Nakano

522
Citations
Variation-Aware Application Scheduling and Power Management for Chip Multiprocessors

Radu Teodorescu;Josep Torrellas

439
Citations
A chip-multiprocessor architecture with speculative multithreading

V. Krishnan;J. Torrellas

437
Citations
Bulk Disambiguation of Speculative Threads in Multiprocessors

Luis Ceze;James Tuck;Josep Torrellas;Calin Cascaval

425
Citations
FlexRAM: Toward an advanced Intelligent Memory system

Yi Kang;Wei Huang;Seung-Moon Yoo;Diana Keen

362
Citations
ReVive: cost-effective architectural support for rollback recovery in shared-memory multiprocessors

Milos Prvulovic;Zheng Zhang;Josep Torrellas

358
Citations
False sharing and spatial locality in multiprocessor caches

J. Torrellas;H.S. Lam;J.L. Hennessy

328
Citations
POSH: a TLS compiler that exploits program structure

Wei Liu;James Tuck;Luis Ceze;Wonsun Ahn

326
Citations
BulkSC: bulk enforcement of sequential consistency

Luis Ceze;James Tuck;Pablo Montesinos;Josep Torrellas

309
Citations
Facelift: Hiding and slowing down aging in multicores

Abhishek Tiwari;Josep Torrellas

309
Citations
Cherry: Checkpointed early resource recycling in out-of-order microprocessors

José F. Martínez;Jose Renau;Michael C. Huang;Milos Prvulovic

304
Citations
Architectural support for scalable speculative parallelization in shared-memory multiprocessors

Marcelo Cintra;José F. Martínez;Josep Torrellas

284
Citations
DeLorean: Recording and Deterministically Replaying Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Execution Ef?ciently

Pablo Montesinos;Luis Ceze;Josep Torrellas

282
Citations
InvisiSpec: making speculative execution invisible in the cache hierarchy

Mengjia Yan;Jiho Choi;Dimitrios Skarlatos;Adam Morrison

280
Citations
Positional adaptation of processors: application to energy reduction

Michael C. Huang;Jose Renau;Josep Torrellas

262
Citations
Speculative synchronization: applying thread-level speculation to explicitly parallel applications

José F. Martínez;Josep Torrellas

245
Citations
A framework for dynamic energy efficiency and temperature management

Michael Huang;Jose Renau;Seung-Moon Yoo;Josep Torrellas

229
Citations
Using a user-level memory thread for correlation prefetching

Yan Solihin;Jaejin Lee;Josep Torrellas

220
Citations
ReCycle: pipeline adaptation to tolerate process variation

Abhishek Tiwari;Smruti R. Sarangi;Josep Torrellas

203
Citations
iWatcher: Efficient Architectural Support for Software Debugging

Pin Zhou;Feng Qin;Wei Liu;Yuanyuan Zhou

195
Citations
Mitigating Parameter Variation with Dynamic Fine-Grain Body Biasing

Radu Teodorescu;Jun Nakano;Abhishek Tiwari;Josep Torrellas

144
Citations
Cache Telepathy: Leveraging Shared Resource Attacks to Learn DNN Architectures.

Mengjia Yan;Christopher W. Fletcher;Josep Torrellas

99
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Ceze University of Washington

Milos Prvulovic Georgia Institute of Technology

Lawrence Rauchwerger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Karin Strauss Microsoft (United States)

David Padua University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yuanyuan Zhou University of California, San Diego

Albert Cabellos-Aparicio Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Eduard Alarcon Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Zheng Zhang New York University Shanghai

Nam Sung Kim University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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