Manuel E. Acacio is a Full-Professor of computer architecture and technology at the University of Murcia, Spain. He joined the Computer Engineering Department (DiTEC) in 1998, after he received the MS degree in computer science. Dr. Acacio started as a Teaching Assistant. At the same time, he began his work on his PhD thesis, which he successfully defended in March 2003. Before, in the summer of 2002, Dr. Acacio worked as a summer intern at IBM TJ Watson, Yorktown Heights (NY). After that, he became Assistant Professor in 2004, Associate Professor in 2008, and Full-Professor in 2018.
Currently, Dr. Acacio leads the Computer Architecture & Parallel Systems (CAPS) research group, which is part of the ACCA group. His research interests are focused on the architecture of multiprocessor systems. More specifically, he is working on prediction and speculation in multiprocessor memory systems, synchronization in multicores, power-aware cache-coherence protocols for multicores, fault tolerance, hardware transactional memory systems and accelerator architectures (GPU and NPU). From 2011 to 2015 he served as associate editor of IEEE TPDS Int’l Journal. From 2013, Dr. Acacio is member of the board of Distinguished Reviewers for ACM TACO.