DIEGO RAFAEL
LLANOS FERRARIS

After earning my PhD in Computer Science, and until 2016, my research activities were centered in the field of automatic parallelization of irregular loops, using software-based speculative techniques. These sixteen years were a fruitful period, with many publications in IEEE Trans. on Computers and IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems covering all the aspects of the problem, from runtime scheduling to automatic techniques that reduce the squashing overheads. This period concluded with a reference paper that condenses the state-of-the-art of speculative parallelization “A Survey on Thread-Level Speculation Techniques”, published in ACM Computing Surveys, a Q1 journal with IF=6.748 and in position 2/101 in the group “Computer Science, Theory and Methods”. Other contributions include parallel techniques to deal with the increased heterogeneity of modern computer devices. Since 2016 I also started to work in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) from a very practical point of view, with real-world applications in mind, from indoor positioning to remote sensing, as well as parallel applications tailored for several scientific domains. I also contribute to the research carried out in the Trasgo Group of the University of Valladolid, aiming to find a comprehensive programming framework that could automatically take advantage of the presence of heterogeneous devices at runtime. I have led or co-led since consecutive TIN projects in these fields from 2007 onwards. Research transference contributions: I have co-led several technology-transfer projects that sum up to more than 4 million euros in the field of embedded computing, mostly through the CENIT calls between 2007 and 2012. In 2017 I co-founded a R&D company, RDNest, in the field of embedded systems, indoor positioning and HPC. Services to the Community. Internationalization: During the last ten years I have led or co-led the organization of several national and international conferences in Valladolid, including Jornadas SARTECO (2014), CPC 2016, HLPP 2017, PDP 2021 and PDP 2022. I also served as Publicity Chair in HiPEAC conference in the following editions: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 2022, 2023, and 2024, and as Publicity Co-Chair at EuroPar 2023. Besides this, I serve as Steering Committee Member of the CAPAP-H network, that started in 2011 as a network of excellence and today is an organization with several hundred members that celebrates annually at different locations a well-known event, the Seminario de Invierno CAPAP-H. In Community Services, I acted as Panel Expert appointed by the MINECO as member of the TIN Reviewing Panel in R&D projects (TIN-2016, TIN-2019, TIN-2021, and TIN-2023 calls), as well as in other regional Commissions. Mentoring: up to date, I have advised more than 100 B.Sc. and M.Sc. thesis, together with five Ph.D thesis. One of my PhD students, Sergio Aldea, is currently Senior Principal Data Scientist at Oracle. Divulgative actions: I gave a 25 min. talk in Naukas 2017, at a theater with 800 attendants, with more than 16K views on Youtube. University management: Head of Department of Informatics at the Univ. of Valladolid since jun 2022. Bibliometrics (jun 24): H-Index Google: 18 (1470 cites). ResearchGate: 14 (893 cites). Web of Science: 8 (285 cites).