Research Group on Natural Computing

I am interested on developing new throughput-oriented software tools for simulating bio-inspired computing models, specifically, for membrane (P) systems. The massively parallelism that they inherently present is a challenge to be efficiently simulated. Tools from High Performance Computing become essential for this purpose. GPUs, using GPGPU and CUDA, are new massively data-parallel processors that are well suited to simulate P systems.
From 2014 to 2017, I was working at Fraunhofer IIS (Germany) on the development of parallel image coding techniques on GPUs, in the context of Digital Cinema (for postproduction tools and broadcasting) with JPEG2000 and in lightweight compression environments with JPEGXS. I am also interested on applications of machine learning techniques such as Deep Learning to video archiving environments.
In summary, my research topics are:

• Parallel Computing
• High Performance Computing
• GPU computing, CUDA, OpenCL
• Natural Computing
• Membrane Computing and P systems
• Image coding (JPEG2000 and JPEGXS)
• Deep Learning

Dpt. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Office H1.47. E.T.S. Ingeniería Informática
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E-mail: mdelamor '4t' us 'd0t' es

• Member of Digital Cinema group at Fraunhofer IIS
• Administrator of the GPU computing server at RGNC
• Member of IMUS (Institute of Mathematics of the University of Seville)
• 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
• 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, headed by Henry Adorna, at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
• Course "Introduction to the analysis of molecular phylogenies" (Iniciación al análisis de filogenias moleculares), Centro de Formación Permanente de la Universidad de Sevilla (Sevilla, 2011).
• Course "Genome assembly and annotation using supercomputing" (“Ensamblado y Anotación de Genomas empleando Supercomputación”), Fundación Centro de Supercomputación Castilla y León FCSCL (Segovia, 2010).
• Summer School “Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems”, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona, 2010).
• 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: “Evaluating ATTILA, a cycle-accurate GPU simulator”. Advisor: Prof. Lasse Natvig, NTNU (2007).
• Erasmus student at the NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (academic year 2006 - 2007).
• Computer engineer from the University of Murcia (2002 - 2008).

• GPU computing server (main administrator).
• PMCGPU project (founder).
• Personal Web at the Department
• University of Seville, Research Service "SISIUS" profile
• DBLP profile
• Scopus profile
• Google scholar
• ORCID

I acknowledge the support of the following research projects:

• ERCIM fellowship programme and Fraunhofer IIS.
• Predoctoral research grant (beca predoctoral de investigador en formación) associated to Proyecto de Excelencia con Investigador de Reconocida Valía "Modelado y Simulación Computacional en Biología de Sistemas" (P08-TIC04200): funded by "Consejería de Economía, Innovación y Ciencia" of the Junta de Andalucía (Spain), and FEDER funds of the UE.
• Computación Celular: Aplicaciones a la Biología de Sistemas y Sintética (TIN2009-13192): funded by the spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación", and FEDER funds of the UE.
• Análisis computacional y simulación de procesos biológicos en computación celular (TIN2006-13425): funded by the spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia", and FEDER funds of the UE.