Enrique Morancho Llena is a Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture at the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He is an active member of the UPC PM - Programming Models research group and has been affiliated with the CAP - Grup de Computació d'Altes Prestacions (High-Performance Computing Group), one of UPC's most productive research teams with over 120 publications. His academic career spans more than 30 years, with continuous research output from 1994 to the present. Dr. Morancho Llena's research spans multiple areas in computer systems, with particular expertise in high-performance computing, parallel programming models, computer architecture, operating systems, and compiler optimization. His work has evolved from early research in instruction scheduling and memory access optimization to current work on heterogeneous computing, RISC-V architecture, hardware security, and malware detection. He has made significant contributions to OpenMP programming models, GPU acceleration, and virtualization technologies, with publications in top-tier venues including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. His recent publications (2021-2024) show a clear trend toward heterogeneous computing architectures, security aspects of computer systems, and RISC-V based technologies. He has published extensively on OpenMP extensions for heterogeneous systems, hypervisor implementations for RISC-V, and security applications including malware detection using opcode analysis. His work bridges theoretical computer architecture concepts with practical implementations for scientific computing and security applications. Dr. Morancho Llena has supervised PhD students, with R. Gran's thesis on "Non-speculative enhancements for the scheduling logic" being one documented example. He has participated in numerous competitive research projects funded by Spanish and Catalan governments, including multiple iterations of the "Computació d'Altes Prestacions" (High-Performance Computing) projects and RISC-V related initiatives under the RIS3CAT program. His collaborations extend across UPC departments and include partnerships with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He is an active member of the CAP research group and the PM - Programming Models group, focusing on advanced programming techniques for high-performance systems. His work on the UPC-Computación de Altas Prestaciones series demonstrates long-term leadership in establishing UPC as a center of excellence in high-performance computing research. Current projects include work on RISC-V based accelerators, security in the computing continuum, and trustworthy development environments for cloud services.





