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70
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963

Josep Torrellas publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Josep Torrellas sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 361 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Josep Torrellas D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Josep Torrellas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

  • Variation-Aware Application Scheduling and Power Management for Chip Multiprocessors

    Radu Teodorescu;Josep Torrellas

  • A chip-multiprocessor architecture with speculative multithreading

    V. Krishnan;J. Torrellas

  • Bulk Disambiguation of Speculative Threads in Multiprocessors

    Luis Ceze;James Tuck;Josep Torrellas;Calin Cascaval

  • FlexRAM: Toward an advanced Intelligent Memory system

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

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

    Milos Prvulovic;Zheng Zhang;Josep Torrellas

  • False sharing and spatial locality in multiprocessor caches

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

  • POSH: a TLS compiler that exploits program structure

    Wei Liu;James Tuck;Luis Ceze;Wonsun Ahn

  • BulkSC: bulk enforcement of sequential consistency

    Luis Ceze;James Tuck;Pablo Montesinos;Josep Torrellas

  • Facelift: Hiding and slowing down aging in multicores

    Abhishek Tiwari;Josep Torrellas

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

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

  • Architectural support for scalable speculative parallelization in shared-memory multiprocessors

    Marcelo Cintra;José F. Martínez;Josep Torrellas

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

    Pablo Montesinos;Luis Ceze;Josep Torrellas

  • InvisiSpec: making speculative execution invisible in the cache hierarchy

    Mengjia Yan;Jiho Choi;Dimitrios Skarlatos;Adam Morrison

  • Positional adaptation of processors: application to energy reduction

    Michael C. Huang;Jose Renau;Josep Torrellas

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

    José F. Martínez;Josep Torrellas

  • A framework for dynamic energy efficiency and temperature management

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

  • Using a user-level memory thread for correlation prefetching

    Yan Solihin;Jaejin Lee;Josep Torrellas

  • ReCycle: pipeline adaptation to tolerate process variation

    Abhishek Tiwari;Smruti R. Sarangi;Josep Torrellas

  • iWatcher: Efficient Architectural Support for Software Debugging

    Pin Zhou;Feng Qin;Wei Liu;Yuanyuan Zhou

  • Mitigating Parameter Variation with Dynamic Fine-Grain Body Biasing

    Radu Teodorescu;Jun Nakano;Abhishek Tiwari;Josep Torrellas

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

    Mengjia Yan;Christopher W. Fletcher;Josep Torrellas

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Ceze
Luis Ceze University of Washington
Milos Prvulovic
Milos Prvulovic Georgia Institute of Technology
Lawrence Rauchwerger
Lawrence Rauchwerger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karin Strauss
Karin Strauss Microsoft (United States)
David Padua
David Padua University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yuanyuan Zhou
Yuanyuan Zhou University of California, San Diego
Albert Cabellos-Aparicio
Albert Cabellos-Aparicio Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Eduard Alarcon
Eduard Alarcon Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Zheng Zhang
Zheng Zhang New York University Shanghai
Nam Sung Kim
Nam Sung Kim University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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