Research Group on Natural Computing

I am interested on developing new high-performance 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 supporting CUDA are new massively data-parallel processors that are well suited to simulate P systems.
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 Computing
• High Performance Computing
• GPU computing, CUDA, OpenCL
• 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

• NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute ambassadorship.
• Main organizer of BICAS, special session of HPCS, since 2018.
• Associate 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).

• Personal Web Site
• GPU computing server (main administrator).
• PMCGPU project (founder).
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• University of Seville, Research Service "SISIUS" profile
• LinkedIn profile
• Github repositories