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.
I am also interested on developing new simulation algorithms for P systems, adapting and implementing them to CUDA architecture. Other topics that I would like to study are genome assembly and annotation using High Performance Computing and GPU computing, new P systems based models for biology and physics, bio-inspired design of hardware, simulation of P systems in other parallel platforms, and how this simulators can be used in order to develop a P system implementation.
In summary, my research topics are:

• Natural Computing
• Membrane Computing and P systems
• Parallel Computing
• High Performance Computing
• GPGPU, CUDA, OpenCL
• Bioinformatics
• Systems Biology
• Complexity

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

• Training 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).

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I acknowledge the support of the following research projects:

• 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.