Josep Torrellas is a Professor at the Departments of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is the Director of the Center for Programmable Extreme Scale Computing, and past Director of the Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC). He is a Fellow of IEEE (2004) and ACM (2010). He received the IEEE Computer Society 2015 Technical Achievement Award, for “Pioneering contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level speculation”. He has served as the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) (2005-2010) and as a Council Member of CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) (2011-2014). He was a Willett Faculty Scholar at UIUC (2002-2009). As of 2014, he has graduated 35 Ph.D. students, who are now leaders in academia and industry.