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Research interests
In October 1990 I joined the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Department of the UAB as a postgraduate student. In 2000, I did my PhD dissertation at UAB in the topic of load balancing in parallel systems. This research resulted 11 publications in international conferences and 5 papers in indexed journals.
After presenting my PhD Thesis, I did a one-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Madison - Wisconsin (USA). During this stay, I collaborated with the groups of Professors Miron Livny and Barton Miller. The result of this collaboration was published in 2 prestigious international conferences.
At the end of this stay, I gave a turn to the projection of my career as a researcher by starting to co-lead a research group, becoming independent from my doctoral thesis director. This new research line was focused on the application of high performance computing in environmental challenges related to simulating the spread of forest fires. The objective of this research covered several aspects: from reducing the prediction time (simulation) to be able to provide the extinction services with an early response, to the use of massive parallel computing to improve the quality of the prediction by means of adjustment procedures of the input parameters with genetic algorithms and reduce the uncertainty associated with them. The experience acquired in this environmental challenge made it possible to expand the scope of the research line to other environmental challenges such as, on the one hand, ocean simulation with the aim of analyzing the effect of climate change on the oceans and, on the other hand, simulations of air quality in urban areas in order to analyze the effect of the inclusion of green infrastructures in these zones.
This research line is an interdisciplinary one, which has required the group to collaborate with researchers from other fields of science. The results of the coordination of this new line of research have been:
- 15 PhD Thesis (10 under my supervision and 2 in progress also under my supervision)
- 30 publications in indexed international journals
- more than 80 publications in international conferences
- Participation in 2 projects of the European Commission
- Principal Investigator of one project of the European Commission
- Principal Investigator in 2 national projects
- Researcher Responsible for 3 knowledge transfer agreements
General quality indicators of scientific research
Number of six-year research terms granted: 4
Last six-year research term granted: 2011-2016
Scopus Indexes:
H: 14
Total citations: 714
Average cites/year (last 5 years): 67.8
WoS Indexes:
H: 12
Total citations: 540
Average cites/year (last 5 years): 53
PhD Thesis advised during the last 10 years: 6 PhD Thesis, 5 with European/International Mention and 2 were awarded with the Extraordinary Doctorate award. Currently 2 PhD Thesis in progress.
PhD student: Vidal Canedo, Veronica; WFR-Chem optimization in HPC platforms to determine the effect of Green infrastructures on air quality.
Start date: 01/10/2019 Dissertation date (expected): July 2023
PhD student: Pereira Fraga, Edigley; Efficient Cloud Resource Management for Forest Fire Prediction Environment
Start date: 02/10/2017 Dissertation date (expected): July 2021
PhD student: Farguell Caus, Àngel; Modeling Wildland Fire Behaviour using a Multi-Physics System on HPC Platforms. PhD Thesis with International mention
Start date: 02/11/2015 Dissertation date: 13/12/2018
PhD student: Tintó Prims, Oriol; NEMO: Computational Challenges in Ocean Simulation. PhD Thesis with International mention
Start date: 03/11/2014 Dissertation date: 14/10/2019
PhD student: Artés Vivancos, Tomas; Multi-core Hybrid Architectures Applied to Forest Fire Spread Prediction. PhD Thesis with International mention and Extraordinary Doctorate award
Start date: 17/12/2012 Dissertation date: 08/09/2015
PhD student: Hisham W. Y. Ihshaish; Genetic Ensemble (G-Ensemble): An Evolutionary Computing Technique for Numerical Weather Prediction Enhancement
Start date: 31/10/2007 Dissertation date: 12/09/2012
PhD student: Andrés Cencerrado Barraqué; Methodology for Time Response and Quality Assessment in Natural Hazards Evolution Prediction. PhD Thesis with European mention and Extraordinary Doctorate award
Start date: 27/11/2009 Dissertation date: 17/07/2012
PhD student: Petra Kerstin Wendt; On the Use of Evolutionary Intelligent Systems to Calibrate Input Parameters in Forest Fire Spread Prediction. PhD Thesis with European mention.
Start date: 11/12/2008 Dissertation date: 20/01/2012
Publications (last 10 years) first quartile (Q1): 6
4 indexed in JCR-Thomson Reuters and 2 indexed in Scimago Index.
Publications (last 10 years) second quartile JCR-Thomson Reuters (Q2): 12
Publications (last 10 years) third quartile JCR-Thomson Reuters (Q3): 3
Program Committee
Organizing Committee: ICCS Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems 2013, 2014; ICCS Workshop on Solving Problems with Uncertainties de 2013 hasta 2020; ICCS Workshop on Data Driven Computational Science, de 2015 hasta 2020
Program Committee: ICCS; HPCS; ICA3PP; ICCSA
Indexed journals reviewer:
Environmental Modeling & Software, Journal of Computational Science, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Simulation Modelling Practice and Experience, Combustion Theory and Modelling
Research evaluation activity:
ANEP's project evaluator including the Ramon y Cajal program, AGAUR's project evaluator and evaluator of the Academia program of ANECA.
Available accreditations:
ACREDITACIÓ DE RECERCA AVANÇADA issued by AQUSUC (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya) for the contractual position of CATEDRÁTICO CONTRATADO (contracted Professor). March 2017.
ACREDITACIÓN NACIONAL (Spanish national accreditation) for the position of CATEDRÁTICOS DE UNIVERSIDAD (Professor) June 2015.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Ph. D., Doctor per la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Award Date: 4 Dec 2000
Masters, Arquitectura d'Ordinadors, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Award Date: 1 Jul 1992
Engineer, Enginyeria Informàtica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Award Date: 24 Jul 1990
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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SALUS; Wildfire risk solutions for Spain
Cortes Fite, A., Margalef, T., Espinosa Morales, A. M., Moure Lopez, J. C., Cesar Galobardes, E. & Sikora , A. B.
1/12/22 → 30/11/25
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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COMPUTACION AVANZADA PARA LOS RETOS DE LA SOCIEDAD DIGITAL-UAB
Espinosa Morales, A. M., Sikora , A. B., Aguado Puig, Q., Alcaraz Rodriguez, J., Carrillo Jordan, C., Cebrian Trunas, P., Garrido Sanz, L., Montemuiño Sosa, C. F., Pons Pons, P. L., Sanjuan Gomez, G., Tallada Crespi, P., Vera Rodríguez, G., Vidal Canedo, V., Villar Mesurado, S., Cesar Galobardes, E., Cortes Fite, A., Hernandez Bude, P., Jorba Esteve, J., Marco Sola, S., Margalef, T., Moure Lopez, J. C., Piñol Pascual, J., Ripoll Aracil, A., Senar Rosell, M. A., Sorribes Gomis, J., Villalba Mendez, G., GUZMAN RUIZ, C., PEREIRA FRAGA, E., PEREZ DENGRA, C., Miró Cubells, J. R., Moreno Vendrell, A., Gonzalez i Fernandez, I., Harutyunyan Gevorgyan, S., Moreno Vendrell, A., Peralta Quesada, C. & Haoyuan, L.
1/09/21 → 31/08/24
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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Aprovechando los nuevos paradigmas de computo para los retos de la sociedad digital
Margalef, T., Cortes Fite, A., Cebrian Trunas, P., Garrido Sanz, L., Vidal Canedo, V., Cesar Galobardes, E., Espinosa Morales, A. M., Hernandez Bude, P., Moure Lopez, J. C., Piñol Pascual, J., Senar Rosell, M. A., Sikora , A. B., Sorribes Gomis, J., Bianchini, G., Carrillo Jordan, C., Caymes Scutari, P., Jorba Esteve, J., Miró Cubells, J. R. & Moreno Vendrell, A.
1/01/18 → 30/09/21
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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Development of a method and software for automatically obtain fire perimeters using MODIS-VIIRS hot-spots
14/12/15 → 13/06/16
Project: International research project
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Pensamiento computacional e ingeniería del rendimiento para aplicaciones de ciencias de la vida y medioambientales
Margalef, T., Cortes Fite, A., Ivars Camañez, V. J., López Hernández, M. D. M., Mendez Muñoz, V., Cesar Galobardes, E., Espinosa Morales, A. M., Hernandez Bude, P., Moure Lopez, J. C., Piñol Pascual, J., Ripoll Aracil, A., Senar Rosell, M. A., Sikora , A. B., Sorribes Gomis, J., Bianchini, G., Caymes Scutari, P., Denham, M. M., Laneri, K., Jorba Esteve, J., Miró Cubells, J. R. & Moreno Vendrell, A.
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
1/01/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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Downscaling WRF-Chem: Analyzing Urban Air Quality in Barcelona City
Vidal, V., Cortés, A., Badia, A. & Villalba, G., 2023, Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings. Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Krzhizhanovskaya, V. V., Sloot, P. M. A., Paszynski, M. & Dongarra, J. J. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 61-73 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14073 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Impact of Mixed-Precision: A Way to Accelerate Data-Driven Forest Fire Spread Systems
Carrillo, C., Margalef, T., espinosa, A. & Cortés, A., 2023, Computational Science – ICCS 2023 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings. Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Krzhizhanovskaya, V. V., Sloot, P. M. A., Paszynski, M. & Dongarra, J. J. (eds.). Vol. 14074. p. 62-76 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14074 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Efficient Cloud-Based Calibration of Input Data for Forest Fire Spread Prediction
Fraga, E., Cortes, A., Margalef, T. & Hernandez, P., 2022, Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science, eScience 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 128-136 9 p. (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Science, eScience 2022).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Cloud-Based Urgent Computing for Forest Fire Spread Prediction under Data Uncertainties
Fraga, E., Cortes, A., Margalef, T. & Hernandez, P., 2021, Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 28th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 430-435 6 p. (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 28th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2021).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Evaluating WRF-BEP/BEM Performance: On the Way to Analyze Urban Air Quality at High Resolution Using WRF-Chem+BEP/BEM
Vidal, V., Cortés, A., Badia, A. & Villalba, G., 2021, Computational Science – ICCS 2021 - 21st International Conference, Proceedings. Paszynski, M., Kranzlmüller, D., Kranzlmüller, D., Krzhizhanovskaya, V. V., Dongarra, J. J., Sloot, P. M., Sloot, P. M. & Sloot, P. M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 516-527 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12746 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book › Chapter › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Thesis
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A new distributed diffusion algorithm for dynamic load-balancing in parallel systems
Author: Cortés Fité, A., 4 Dec 2000Supervisor: Ripoll Aracil, A. (Director)
Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
Organisations
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High Performance Computing Applications for Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
Organisational unit: Research Group