People

Professors

• Antonio González (Research Group Leader)

Antonio Gonzalez received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. He is the founding director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center, whose research focuses on new microarchitecture paradigms and code generation techniques for future microprocessors. He joined the faculty of the Computer Architecture Department of UPC in 1986 and became a Full Professor in 2002. He currently leads the ARCO research group and holds a part-time Professor position at this department. Contact him at antonio(at)ac.upc.edu

• Carles Aliagas

Carles Aliagas recieved his M.S degree from the the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. He joined the Computer Science and Mathematics Department of Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona where he is currently working as an associate professor. His areas of interest are computer architecture, operating systems and parallelism. His research is focused on memory hierarchies for microprocessors.
Contact him at carles.aliagas(at)urv.net

• Ramon Canal

Ramon Canal received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Catalonia, EU. He joined the faculty of the Computer Architecture Department of UPC in 2003 where he is currently an associate professor. He finished his M.S. in the University of Bath (UK), worked at Sun Microsystems in 2000, and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard University in the 2006/2007 school year. His research focuses mostly on power and thermal aware architectures, as well as reliability. Contact him at rcanal(at)ac.upc.edu

• Carlos Molina

Associate Professor in Computer Architecture at Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain. In 1996, he received a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He also obtained the PhD degree in Computer Sciences from de Computer Architecture Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in 2005. His research was focused on multithreading architectures and data value reuse for superscalar processors. He is currently working on Chip Multiprocessors. Contact him at carlos.molina(at)urv.net

• Joan-Manuel Parcerisa

Joan-Manuel Parcerisa received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain, in 1993 and 2004 respectively. Since 1994 he is a professor at the Computer Architecture Department in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

His current research topics include clustered microarchitectures, multithreading, and cache memory. Contact him at jmanel(at)ac.upc.edu

Researchers at the Intel-UPC Barcelona Research Center

• Antonio González (Research Group Leader)

Antonio Gonzalez received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona, Spain. He is the founding director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center, whose research focuses on new microarchitecture paradigms and code generation techniques for future microprocessors. He joined the faculty of the Computer Architecture Department of UPC in 1986 and became a Full Professor in 2002. He currently leads the ARCO research group and holds a part-time Professor position at this department. Contact him at antonio.gonzalez(at)intel.com

• Jaume Abella

Jaume Abella received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the UPC (Spain). He was a research assistant at the UPC from 1999 to 2005. Currently he is a senior research scientist at the Intel Barcelona Research Center (since 2005). Jaume Abella received the award to the best thesis in Information and Communication Technologies at the UPC in 2005, and achieved the 1st rank in the M.S. and B.S. at the UPC in 2002 and 2000 respectively. His main research interests are hardware reliability and low-power designs.Contact him at jaume.abella(at)intel.com

• Qiong Cai

Qiong Cai was born in Shanghai, China on 15 December, 1976. He went to Australia in 1997 for his bachelor study, and graduated from University of Wollongong in 2000 with Bachelor of Computer Science and Bachelor of Mathematics. He continued his study in University of New South Wales as an honours student supervised by Professor Jingling Xue and graduated with Bachelor of Computer Science (the first class honours) in 2001. He pursued his PHD research in compilers under the supervision of Professor Jingling Xue in 2002 and received the degree in 2006. The title of thesis is profile-guided redundancy elimination. Since July of 2005 he has been working as a Sr. Research Scientist in the Intel Barcelona Research Center. Contact him at qiongx.cai(at)intel.com

• Carlos Madriles

Carlos Madriles received the MS degree in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) at Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. He joined the Dept. of Computer Architecture of the UPC-Barcelona in 2001 as a research assistant. Since May 2002, he is a research scientist of the Intel Barcelona Research Center. He is currently doing the PhD in the UPC-Barcelona on the area of speculative thread-level parallelism. His current research interests are in multi-core architectures and compilation techniques, with special emphasis in speculative multithreading and transactional memory. Contact him at carlos.madriles.gimeno(at)intel.com

• Alejandro Martínez

Alejandro Martínez received the MS degree in computer science and the PhD degree from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

He is currently with the Intel Barcelona Research Center. His research interests include high-performance interconnections, quality of service, high-performance computing, and processor microarchitecture.

Contact him at alejandrox.martinez(at)intel.com

• Raúl Martínez

Raúl Martínez received the MS degree in computer science from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in 2003 and the PhD degree from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in 2007. He is currently a researcher in the Intel Barcelona Research Center. His research interests include high performance local area networks, quality of service (QoS), design of high-performance switches, and processor microarchitecture.

Contact him at raulm(at)ac.upc.edu

• Xavi Vera

Xavier Vera received the M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2000 from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) at Barcelona (Spain). He obtained his PhD from Mälardalens Högskola at Västerås (Sweden) in 2004.

Contact him at xavier.vera(at)intel.com

PhD Students

• Enric Herrero

Enric Herrero received his M.S. degree in Electric Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2006. He also received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2003.

He joined the ARCO research group in 2006 where he is pursuing his PhD studies. His current research interests are memory hierarchy design for multicore architectures and low-power designs. Contact him at eherrero(at)ac.upc.edu

• Marc Pons

2000 – 2005: M.Sc., Telecommunications, from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain).

2006 – Present: Ph.D. Student at the Electronic Engineering Department in collaboration with the Intel Barcelona Research Center and the Computer Architecture Department.

Working on Design for Manufacturability for Deep Sub-Micron CMOS technologies. Research focused on Regular Layouts to reduce the impact of Process Variations on Integrated Circuits. Contact him at pons(at)ac.upc.edu

• Rakesh Ranjan

Rakesh received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Institute of Technology, BHU (India) in 2003.

From 2003 to 2005 he was an Engineer with Samsung Electronics where he worked in the 3G Mobile Handset group.

He started his PhD with the ARCO group in 2005 where he is doing research on compiler and microarchitecture techniques for Speculative Multithreaded Architectures. Contact him at rranjan(at)ac.upc.edu

• Govind S

Govind is currently a PhD student working jointly with Prof Antonio and Prof Jordi Tubella. He completed his Master of Science in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur.

His research interests are in network processor architecture and architecture for security systems.

Contact him at govind(at)ac.upc.edu