CAPS

Research Group

People

The CAPS research group was created in December 2010 by a small group of young researchers from the University of Murcia. As for today, the group is led by Manuel E Acacio and these are its members:

Researcher	Position	Research interest	email
Manuel E. Acacio (PI)	Full Professor	Computer Architecture, Memory hierarchy, Specialized accelerator design	meacacio at um.es
Alberto Ros	Full Professor	Computer Architecture, Processor Design	aros at um.es
Alexandra Jimborean	Ramón y Cajal Researcher	Compilers, Software Analysis and Optimization, Software-Hardware Co-designs	alexandra.jimborean at um.es
Antonio Flores	Associate Professor	Computer Architecture	aflores at um.es
Gregorio Bernabé	Associate Professor	Computer Architecture, Distributed Computing, Parallel Computing	gbernabe at um.es
José L. Abellán	Ramón y Cajal Researcher	Computer Architecture, GPU desings, Specialized accelerator design	jlabellan at um.es
Juan Fernández	Associate Professor	Computer Architecture	juanf at um.es
Juan L. Aragón	Full Professor	Heterogeneous Parallel Systems, GPUs, Application-specific Accelerators	jlaragon at um.es
Juan M. Cebrián	Assistant Professor	Computer Architecture	jcebrian at um.es
Juan Piernas	Associate Professor	Fault-tolerant Distributed Storage Systems	piernas at um.es
Pilar González	Associate Professor	Computer Architecture	pilargf at um.es
Ruben Titos Gil	Associate Professor	Computer Architecture	rtitos at um.es

PhD and PostDoc

The following researchers are working in the group:

Researcher	Position	Research interest	email
Adrián Fenollar Navarro	PhD	DL Accelerators, Computer Architecture	adrian.fenollarn at um.es
Agustín Navarro Torres	PostDoc	Hardware Prefetching, BTB, Branch Prediction, Application Characterization	agustin.navarro at um.es
Eduardo José Gómez Hernández	PhD	Computer Architecture, Cache Coherence, Memory Hierarchy, Multi-core Architectures	eduardojose.gomez at um.es
Emily Sillars	PhD	Deep Learning Compilers, Static Analysis	emily.sillars at um.es
Joaquin Ferrer Calderon	PhD	Computer Architecture, Cache Coherence	joaquin.ferrerc at um.es
Maithri Ranga Kulasekara	PhD	Computer vision, Multimodal Fusion,  Artificial intelligence	dm.kulasekara at um.es
Nicolás Meseguer Iborra	PhD	GPU architetures, DNN Accelerators, Computer Architecture	n.mesegueriborra at um.es
Pascual Abellán Pérez	PhD	Computer Architecture	pascual.abellanp at um.es
Ravikiran Ravindranath Reddy	PhD	Software-Hardware Co-Designs	ravikiran.r.r at um.es
Shreya Alladi Subhash Chandra	PhD	Compilers, Software Analysis and Optimization	shreya.a.s at um.es
Sebastián Sumin Kim	PhD	Computer Architecture, Speculative Execution, Memory Dependence Prediction	sebastiansumin.kim at um.es
Víctor Galindo Garre	PhD	Cache Coherence, Computer Architecture	victor.galindog at um.es
Víctor Nicolás Conesa	PhD	Computer Architecture	victor.nicolasc at um.es

Collaborators

The members of our group currently maintain active collaborations with the following international researcher groups:

Research group	Institution	Principal researcher
Synergy Lab	Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)	Prof. Tushar Krishna
Martonosi Research Group	Princeton University (USA)	Prof. Margaret Martonosi
Uppsala Architecture Research Team	Uppsala Universitet (SE)	Prof. Stefanos Kaxiras
CASPER	IIT Bombay (IN)	Prof. Biswabandan Panda
TIMA	Université Grenoble Alpes (FR)	Prof. Arthur Perais
Computer Architecture Group	University of Cambridge (UK)	Prof. Timothy Jones
Computer Architecture Lab (CAL)	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Prof. Magnus Jahre

Former members

During the last ten years, the following students sucessfully completed their PhD with us:

Student	Award date	First Employment
Ashkan Asgharzadeh	November 2024	Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain)
Sawan Singh	November 2024	AMD Cambridge (UK)
David Corbalán Navarro	June 2023	VOPTICA (Spain)
Francisco Muñoz Martínez	December 2022	Intel Munich (Germany)
Epifanio Gaona	January 2016	Vertebra Gestión (Spain)
Ana Avilés	December 2014	Greenhost (Netherlands)
Antonio García-Guirado	November 2013	Intel Labs Barcelona (Spain)