Research Group on Natural Computing

My main interest is on high performance computing methods and tools, applied to domains such as artificial intelligence and bio-inspired computing. Specifically, GPU computing is a widely known solution in HPC since they offer a highly data-parallel processor at a low cost. The massively parallelism that P systems inherently present is a challenge to be efficiently simulated, and GPUs are well suited to this task.
Other applications of GPU computing are also interesting for me, such as the acceleration of image coding techniques on the GPU in the context of Digital Cinema (for postproduction tools and broadcasting) with JPEG2000 and in lightweight compression environments with JPEGXS, and the acceleration of multi-agent systems with open standards. Moreover, I have an increasing interest on applications of machine learning techniques, specially Deep Learning, to computer vision applications such as video archiving environments for classification, sign language translation, etc.
In summary, my research topics are:

• Parallel/Accelerated Computing
• High Performance Computing
• GPU computing (CUDA and open standards)
• Membrane Computing and P systems
• Simulation and Modelling
• Machine Learning - Deep Learning
• Image coding (JPEG2000 and JPEGXS)
• Multi-agent systems - Crowd simulation

Dpt. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Office H1.47. E.T.S. Ingeniería Informática
Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla (Spain)
Telf.: +34 954 557953

E-mail: mdelamor 'at' us.es

• Promotion to Associate Professor (profesor titular de universidad) at University of Seville)
• Promotion to Tenured (Profesor Contratado Doctor) at University of Seville)
• Guest Professor at TUM (visiting Matthias Niessner group as part of re-qualification fellowships from University of Seville)
• Member of the SCORE lab (University of Seville)
• Member of the I3US (Instituto de Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de Sevilla)
• Member of the program and steering committee of the 18th High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS2020).
• NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute ambassadorship.
• Main organizer of BICAS, special session of HPCS, since 2018.
• Assistant Professor at University of Seville, as a member of the Research Group on Natural Computing
• Research associate at Fraunhofer IIS, as a member of Digital Cinema group
• ERCIM fellow at Fraunhofer IIS, as a member of Digital Cinema group
• Administrator of the GPU computing servers at RGNC
• Member of IMUS (Institute of Mathematics of the University of Seville)
• Founder of the PMCGPU (Parallel simulators for Membrane Computing on the GPU) software project.
• Visiting HPC-LAB research group, at the NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), headed by Prof. Anne C. Elster, from July 2011-September 2011. I acknowledge the grant from "IV plan propio" of the University of Seville, and the support of the HPC-Lab group, specially to Anne C. Elster.
• Associate external member of the Membrane Computing Research Group and of the Algorithms & Complexity Lab, both headed by Henry Adorna, at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
• Summer School “Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems”, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, 2010).
• Member of the Research Group on Natural Computing, working on the development of parallel simulators based on CUDA for P systems (2008 - Today). Advisor: Mario de Jesús Pérez-Jiménez
• Granted Student associated to the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Murcia. The project was entitled “Development of a power consumption simulator for CMPs based on GEMS/Simics” (academic year 2007-2008)
• End-of-degree project: . Advisor: Prof. Lasse Natvig, NTNU (2007).
• Erasmus student at the NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (academic year 2006 - 2007). See some works I made here.
• Computer engineer from the University of Murcia (class 2008).

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• PMCGPU project (founder).
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