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Contact Information

Name Lois Orosa Nogueira
Email lois.orosa.nogueira@gmail.com
Website https://loisorosa.github.io
LinkedIn loisorosa

Research Interests

Computer Architecture : Memory Systems, Hardware Security and Reliability, Data Centric Computing, New Memory Technologies, AI Hardware-Software Co-design, Storage Systems, Parallel Systems, Quantum Computing Reliability and Security.

Education

2008 - 2013

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

PhD
University of Santiago de Compostela
Computer Architecture
  • Thesis: New Hardware Support for Transactional Memory and Parallel Debugging in Multicore Processors
  • Advisor: Elisardo Antelo and Javier Bruguera
  • Supported by the project “Hardware and software support for high performance computing” (TIN201017541)
  • Interuniversity PhD Courses in Information Technology (University of Santiago de Compostela and University of A Coruña)
2000 - 2006

Vigo, Spain

M.Eng
University of Vigo
Telecommunications Engineering

Institutional Leadership

2025 - present

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Scientific Director
Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)
  • Scientific Director
  • Designing a Scientific Strategy for scaling the institution
  • Institutional representative
  • Get and lead the European AI Factory 1HealthAI (82M EUR)
2022 - 2025

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Managing Director
Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)
  • Leading CESGA’s strategic change.– Contributing to attract large European Funds for infraestructure, services and research.
  • CESGA Representative in the Galicia Quantum Technology Hub (2022-2030, 154M EUR)
  • Quantum Computer with more Qubits in South Europe (2023, 32 Qubits, 14M EUR)
  • Second largest Supercomputer in Spain (Finisterrae III, 2022, 7M EUR)

Industry Experience

2018 - 2018

Dublin, Ireland

Internship
Xilinx Research
Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
  • Mentors: Michaela Blott, Yaman Umuroglu
2012 - 2012

Dublin, Ireland

Internship
Recore Systems
Development of a shared memory multicore simulator.
  • Mentor: Gerard Rauwerda
2010 - 2010

Dublin, Ireland

Summer Internship
IBM R&D Labs
Development of compiler-based deterministic replay for X10 Language
  • Mentors: Olga Golovanevsky, Marina Biberstein, Bilha Mendelson
2006 - 2008

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

R&D Engineer
Arantia 2010 (Televes Group)
Development of network multimedia applications (TV streaming, multimedia contents).
2006 - 2006

Vigo, Spain

Engineer
Communitel Global S.A (Vodafone)
Resolve second level maintenance issues, and automatize large-scale production tasks with perl and C.
2005 - 2005

Vigo, Spain

Engineer
Communitel Global S.A (Vodafone)
Development of a web-based application for monitoring and controlling the network infrastructure.

Academia

2025 - present

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Senior Researcher
Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)
Design Reliable, secure and efficient computing systems for AI and other emerging applications
  • Ramón y Cajal tenure track contract (ranked 1st with a score of 100/100)
  • Leading a Consolidación Investigadora proyect (199.927 EUR.)
  • Xunta the Galicia Consolidator Grant (115.000 EUR.)
  • Leading the Experimental platform of the 1HealthAI AI Factory (4M EUR.)
2019 - 2022

Zurich, Switzerland

Senior Researcher
ETH Zürich, D-ITET, SAFARI group
Memory Systems and Hardware Security
  • PI: Onur Mutlu
2014 - 2018

Campinas, Brazil

PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), LSC
Architectural Support for Speculative Program Execution
  • Supported by FAPESP grant 2014/03840-2.
  • PI: Rodolfo Azevedo.
2017 - 2017

Zürich, Switzerland

Academic Guest
ETH Zürich, Department of Computer Science, SAFARI Group
Enabling security features in commodity DRAM chips
  • Supported by FAPESP grant 2016/18929-4.
  • Supervisor: Onur Mutlu
2014 - 2014

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

PostDoctoral Researcher
University of Santiago de Compostela
  • Supervisor: Elisardo Antelo and Javier Bruguera
2013 - 2013

Lisboa, Portugal

PostDoctoral Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Hardware support for detecting atomicity violations.
  • Supported by European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) with a Short-term Scientific Mission (STSM).
  • Supervisor: João Lourenço
2009 - 2009

Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A

Scholarship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), U.S.A.
Tolerating concurrency bugs in multicore processors
  • Department of Computer Science, IACOMA group
  • Advisor: Josep Torrellas

Teaching Experience

2017 - 2021

Zurich, Switzerland

Teaching Assistant
ETH Zurich
  • 263-2210-00L - Computer Architecture [Fall’17, Fall’19, Fall’20, Fall’21]
  • 263-2211-00L - Seminar in Computer Architecture [Spring’19, Fall’19, Spring’20, Fall’20, Spring’21, Fall’21]
  • 252-0028-00L - Digital Design and Computer Architecture [Spring’19, Spring’20, Spring’21]
2016 - 2016

Campinas, Brazil

Lecturer
Institute of Computing, University of Campinas
  • MC102 - Algorithms and Computer Programming (90h), Spring’16

PhD Students

2014 - 2021

University of Campinas, Brazil

PhD Student
Jorge Luis Gonzalez Reaño
Thesis: Photonics opportunities in modern computing systems
  • Co-advised with Rodolfo Azevedo

Publications

ACCESS’24
SpyHammer: Understanding and exploiting RowHammer under fine-grained temperature variations

Orosa, Lois ; Ruhrmair, Ulrich ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Luo, Haocong ; Olgun, Ataberk ; Jattke, Patrick ; Patel, Minesh ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Razavi, Kaveh ; Mutlu, Onur

IEEE access

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TCAD’23
DRAM bender: An extensible and Versatile FPGA-based Infrastructure to Easily Test State-of-the-art DRAM chips

Olgun, Ataberk ; Hassan, Hasan ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Tugrul, Yahya Can ; Orosa, Lois ; Luo, Haocong ; Patel, Minesh ; Ergin, Oguz ; Mutlu, Onur

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD’23)

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TETC’22
Alp: Alleviating cpu-memory data movement overheads in memory-centric systems

Ghiasi, Nika Mansouri ; Vijaykumar, Nandita ; Oliveira, Geraldo F ; Orosa, Lois ; Fernandez, Ivan ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos ; Hajinazar, Nastaran ; Luna, Juan Gomez ; Mutlu, Onur

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC’22)

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TC’23
EcoFlow: Efficient Convolutional Dataflows on Low-Power Neural Network Accelerators

Orosa, Lois ; Koppula, Skanda ; Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos ; Umuroglu, Yaman ; Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Blott, Michaela ; Vissers, Kees ; Mutlu, Onur

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC’23)

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DSN’22
Understanding Rowhammer under Reduced Wordline Voltage: An experimental study using real dram devices

Yaglikci, A Giray ; Luo, Haocong ; De Oliviera, Geraldo F ; Olgun, Ataberk ; Patel, Minesh ; Park, Jisung ; Hassan, Hasan ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur

52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’22)

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MICRO’22
pLUTo: Enabling Massively Parallel Computation in DRAM via Lookup Tables

Ferreira, Joao Dinis ; Falcao, Gabriel ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Alser, Mohammed ; Orosa, Lois ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Oliveira, Geraldo F ; Shahroodi, Taha ; Nori, Anant ; Mutlu, Onur

55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’22)

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MICRO’22
Hira: Hidden Row Activation for Reducing Refresh Latency of Off-The DRAM Chips

Yaglikci, A Giray ; Olgun, Ataberk ; Patel, Minesh ; Luo, Haocong ; Hassan, Hasan ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur

55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’22)

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arXiv’22
NEON: Enabling Efficient Support for Nonlinear Operations in Resistive RAM-based Neural Network Accelerators

Manglik, Aditya ; Patel, Minesh ; Mao, Haiyu ; Salami, Behzad ; Park, Jisung ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur

arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05730

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JPDC’22
Optically Connected Memory for Disaggregated Data Centers

Gonzalez, Jorge ; Palma, Mauricio G ; Hattink, Maarten ; Rubio-Noriega, Ruth ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur ; Bergman, Keren ; Azevedo, Rodolfo

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC’22)

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HPCA’22
DR-STRaNGe: End-to-end System Design for DRAM-based True Random Number Generators

Bostanci, F Nisa ; Olgun, Ataberk ; Orosa, Lois ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Hassan, Hasan ; Ergin, Oguz ; Mutlu, Onur

28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’22)

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ISCA’21
IChannels: Exploiting Current Management Mechanisms to Create Covert Channels in Modern Processors

Haj-Yahya, Jawad ; Orosa, Lois ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Alser, Mohammed ; Puddu, Ivan ; Mutlu, Onur

48th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’21)

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MICRO’21
A Deeper Look into RowHammer’s sensitivities: Experimental analysis of real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Attacks and Defenses

Orosa, Lois ; Yaglikci, Abdullah Giray ; Luo, Haocong ; Olgun, Ataberk ; Park, Jisung ; Hassan, Hasan ; Patel, Minesh ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Mutlu, Onur

54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’21)

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ASPLOS’21
Reducing Solid-state Drive Read Latency by Optimizing Read-retry

Park, Jisung ; Kim, Myungsuk ; Chun, Myoungjun ; Orosa, Lois ; Kim, Jihong ; Mutlu, Onur

26th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’21)

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HPCA’21
SynCron: Efficient Synchronization Support for Near-data-processing Architectures

Giannoula, Christina ; Vijaykumar, Nandita ; Papadopoulou, Nikela ; Karakostas, Vasileios ; Fernandez, Ivan ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Orosa, Lois ; Koziris, Nectarios ; Goumas, Georgios ; Mutlu, Onur

27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’21)

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HPCA’21
Blockhammer: Preventing rowhammer at low cost by blacklisting rapidly-accessed dram rows

Yaglikci, A Giray ; Patel, Minesh ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Azizi, Roknoddin ; Olgun, Ataberk ; Orosa, Lois ; Hassan, Hasan ; Park, Jisung ; Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos ; Shahroodi, Taha ; Ghose, Saugata ; Mutlu, Onur

27th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’21)

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ACCESS’21
DAMOV: A new methodology and benchmark suite for evaluating data movement bottlenecks

Oliveira, Geraldo F ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Orosa, Lois ; Ghose, Saugata ; Vijaykumar, Nandita ; Fernandez, Ivan ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Mutlu, Onur

IEEE Access

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ISCA’21
Codic: A low-cost substrate for enabling custom in-dram functionalities and optimizations

Orosa, Lois ; Wang, Yaohua ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Patel, Minesh ; Puddu, Ivan ; Luo, Haocong ; Razavi, Kaveh ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Hassan, Hasan ; others

48th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’21)

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MICRO’20
FIGARO: Improving System Performance via Fine-grained in-DRAM Data Relocation and Caching

Wang, Yaohua ; Orosa, Lois ; Peng, Xiangjun ; Guo, Yang ; Ghose, Saugata ; Patel, Minesh ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Ghiasi, Nika Mansouri ; Mutlu, Onur

53th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’20)

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ISCA’20
Revisiting rowhammer: An Experimental Analysis of Modern DRAM Devices and Mitigation Techniques

Kim, Jeremie S ; Patel, Minesh ; Ya{\u{g}}l{\i}k{\c{c}}{\i}, A Giray ; Hassan, Hasan ; Azizi, Roknoddin ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur

47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’20)

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MICRO’20
FlexWatts: A Power-and Workload-aware Hybrid Power Delivery Network for Energy-efficient Microprocessors

Haj-Yahya, Jawad ; Alser, Mohammed ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Orosa, Lois ; Rotem, Efraim ; Mendelson, Avi ; Chattopadhyay, Anupam ; Mutlu, Onur

53rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’20)

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ICCD’20
WoLFRaM: Enhancing Wear-leveling and Fault Tolerance in Resistive Memories using Programmable Address Decoders

Yavits, Leonid ; Orosa, Lois ; Mahar, Suyash ; Ferreira, Joao Dinis ; Erez, Mattan ; Ginosar, Ran ; Mutlu, Onur

38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD’20)

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ASPLOS’20
Evanesco: Architectural Support for Efficient Data Sanitization in Modern Flash-based Storage Systems

Kim, Myungsuk ; Park, Jisung ; Cho, Genhee ; Kim, Yoona ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur ; Kim, Jihong

25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’20)

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D&T’20
Robust Machine Learning Systems: Challenges, Current Trends, Perspectives, and the Road Ahead

Shafique, Muhammad ; Naseer, Mahum ; Theocharides, Theocharis ; Kyrkou, Christos ; Mutlu, Onur ; Orosa, Lois ; Choi, Jungwook

IEEE Design & Test (D&T)

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ISCA’20
CLR-DRAM: A Low-cost DRAM Architecture Enabling Dynamic Capacity-latency Trade-off

Luo, Haocong ; Shahroodi, Taha ; Hassan, Hasan ; Patel, Minesh ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Orosa, Lois ; Park, Jisung ; Mutlu, Onur

47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’20)

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SBAC
Optically Connected Memory for Disaggregated Data Centers

Gonzalez, Jorge ; Gazman, Alexander ; Hattink, Maarten ; Palma, Mauricio G. ; Bahadori, Meisam ; Rubio-Noriega, Ruth ; Orosa, Lois ; Glick, Madeleine ; Mutlu, Onur ; Bergman, Keren ; Azevedo, Rodolfo

32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

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HPCA’19
D-RaNGe: Using commodity DRAM Devices to Generate True Random Numbers with Low Latency and High Throughput

Kim, Jeremie S ; Patel, Minesh ; Hassan, Hasan ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur

5th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’19)

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TACO’19
ITAP: Idle-time-aware Power Management for GPU Execution Units

Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Ehsani, Seyed Borna ; Falahati, Hajar ; Ausavarungnirun, Rachata ; Tavakkol, Arash ; Abaee, Mojtaba ; Orosa, Lois ; Wang, Yaohua ; Sarbazi-Azad, Hamid ; Mutlu, Onur

ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)

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MICRO’19
EDEN: Enabling Energy-efficient, High-performance Deep Neural Network Inference using Approximate DRAM

Koppula, Skanda ; Orosa, Lois ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Azizi, Roknoddin ; Shahroodi, Taha ; Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos ; Mutlu, Onur

52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’19)

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MICRO’18
Reducing DRAM Latency via Charge-level-aware Look-ahead partial Restoration

Wang, Yaohua ; Tavakkol, Arash ; Orosa, Lois ; Ghose, Saugata ; Ghiasi, Nika Mansouri ; Patel, Minesh ; Kim, Jeremie S ; Hassan, Hasan ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Mutlu, Onur

51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’18)

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TACO’18
AVPP: Address-first Value-next Predictor with Value Prefetching for Improving the Efficiency of Load Value Prediction

Orosa, Lois ; Azevedo, Rodolfo ; Mutlu, Onur

ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)

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ISCA’18
FLIN: Enabling Fairness and Enhancing Performance in Modern NVMe Solid State Drives

Tavakkol, Arash ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Ghose, Saugata ; Kim, Jeremie ; Luo, Yixin ; Wang, Yaohua ; Ghiasi, Nika Mansouri ; Orosa, Lois ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Mutlu, Onur

45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’18),

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CJ’16
Asymmetric Allocation in a Shared Flexible Signature Module for Multicore Processors

Orosa, Lois ; Bruguera, Javier D ; Antelo, Elisardo

The Computer Journal (CJ’16)

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PDP’16
A Hardware Approach to Detect, Expose and Tolerate High Level Data Races

Orosa, Lois ; Lourenco, Joao

4th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP’16)

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ICECS’16
Temporal frequent value locality

Orosa, Lois ; Azevedo, Rodolfo

3rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’16)

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ICECS’16
Architecting a Computer with a Full Optical RAM

Gonzalez, Jorge ; Orosa, Lois ; Azevedo, Rodolfo

3rd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’16)

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TACO’12
Flexsig: Implementing Flexible Hardware Signatures

Orosa, Lois ; Antelo, Elisardo ; Bruguera, Javier D

ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)

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HPCA’12
Pacman: Tolerating Asymmetric Data Races with Unintrusive Hardware

Qi, Shanxiang ; Otsuki, Norimasa ; Nogueira, Lois Orosa ; Muzahid, Abdullah ; Torrellas, Josep

8th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA’12)

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Workshops

WTTM’15
LogSI-HTM: Log Based Snapshot Isolation in Hardware Transactional Memory

Orosa, Lois ; Azevedo, Rodolfo

7th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM’15)

DMTM’14
A Hardware Approach for Detecting, Exposing and Tolerating High Level Atomicity Violations

Orosa, Lois ; Lourenco, Joao

Workshop on Dependable Multicore and Transactional Memory Systems (DMTM’14)

Book Chapters

Springer’23
Using Approximate DRAM for Enabling Energy-Efficient, High-Performance Deep Neural Network Inference

Orosa, Lois ; Koppula, Skanda ; Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos ; Yaglikci, A Giray ; Mutlu, Onur

Embedded Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical, IoT, and Edge Computing: Hardware Architectures, chapter 10

Posters

ISCA’22
CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations

Orosa, Lois ; Wang, Yaohua ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Kim, Jeremie ; Patel, Minesh ; Puddu, Ivan ; Luo, Haocong ; Razavi, Kaveh ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Hassan, Hasan ; Mansouri, Nika Ghiasi ; Ghose, Saugata ; Mutlu, Onur

9th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’22),

Retreat’18
Dataplant: A Low-Cost In-DRAM Value Generation Primitive for Enabling System Security Features

Orosa, Lois ; Wang, Yaohua ; Puddu, Ivan ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Hassan, Hasan ; Tavakkol, Arash ; Mansouri, Nika Ghiasi ; Patel, Minesh ; Kim, Jeremie ; Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Seshadri, Vivek ; Azevedo, Rodolfo ; Mutlu, Onur

ETH Systems Group Industry Retreat

Retreat’18
Improving GPU Power and Energy Efficiency

Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Mirhosseini, Amirhossein ; Ehsani, Seyed Borna ; Ausavarungnirun, Rachata ; Tavakkol, Arash ; Falahati, Hajar ; Orosa, Lois ; Wang, Yaohua ; Sarbazi-Azad, Hamid ; Falsafi, Babak ; Mutlu, Onur

ETH Systems Group Industry Retreat

Retreat’18
Processing-In-Memory Benchmark Suite and Analysis

Gomez-Luna, Juan ; Tavakkol, Arash ; Boroumand, Amirali ; Olivera, Geraldo F ; Atamaner, Mert ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Mansouri, Nika Ghiasi ; Orosa, Lois ; Mutlu, Onur

ETH Systems Group Industry Retreat

Industry’17
A Case for an Amnesic DRAM Chip

Orosa, Lois ; Wang, Yaohua ; Sadrosadati, Mohammad ; Hassan, Hasan ; Tavakkol, Arash ; Patel, Minesh ; Seshadri, Vivek ; Azevedo, Rodolfo ; Mutlu, Onur

ETH Industry day

Retreat’17
AVPP: Address-first Value-next Predictor with Value Prefetching

Orosa, Lois ; Azevedo, Rodolfo ; Mutlu, Onur

ETH Systems Group Industry Retreat

HiPEAC’12
FlexSig: Implementing Flexible Hardware Signatures

Orosa, Lois ; Antelo, Elisardo ; Bruguera, Javier D

7th HiPEAC Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC’12),

(Invited) Research Talks

February 10th, 2022
October 21st, 2021
A Deeper Look into RowHammer's Sensitivities: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Attacks and Defenses

Orosa, Lois

54th IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Global Online event

June 15th, 2021
CODIC: A Low-Cost Substrate for Enabling Custom In-DRAM Functionalities and Optimizations

Orosa, Lois

48th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Global Online event

Video

October 19th, 2020
FIGARO: Improving System Performance via Fine-grained in-DRAM Data Relocation and Caching

Orosa, Lois

53rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Global Online event

Video

January 30th, 2020
More Capable and Efficient DRAM Main Memory Designs

Orosa, Lois

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

October 24th, 2019
January 22nd, 2019
AVPP: Address-first Value-next Predictor with Value Prefetching for Improving the Efficiency of Load Value Prediction

Orosa, Lois

14th HiPEAC Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC'19), Valencia, Spain

January 23rd, 2019
ITAP: Idle-Time-Aware Power Management for GPU Execution Units

Orosa, Lois

14th HiPEAC Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC'19), Valencia, Spain

July 6th, 2016
Temporal Frequent Value Locality

Orosa, Lois

27th Annual IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'16), London, England

March 15th, 2016
Detecting, Exposing and Tolerating High Level Data Races

Orosa, Lois

2nd Manycore Workshop on Micro architectural Challenges in Performance, Energy Efficiency and Resilience, Campinas, Brazil

February 19th, 2016
A Hardware Approach for Detecting, Exposing and Tolerating High Level Atomicity Violations

Orosa, Lois

24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP'16), Heraklion, Greece

April 17th, 2015
Revisiting Load Value Speculation

Orosa, Lois

Seminar series, University of Campinas, Brazil

March 19th, 2015
Revisiting Load Value Speculation

Orosa, Lois

Research Meeting: Performance, Energy and Reliability Challenges in Multi- and Many-core Platforms, Porto Alegre, Brazil

January 22nd, 2014
A Hardware Approach for Detecting, Exposing and Tolerating High Level Atomicity Violations

Orosa, Lois

Workshop on Dependable Multicore and Transactional Memory Systems (DMTM), Vienna, Austria

January 23rd, 2012
FlexSig: Implementing Flexible Hardware Signatures

Orosa, Lois

7th HiPEAC Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC'12), Paris, France

2009
A Cache Filtering Mechanism for Hardware Transactional Memory Systems Decoupled from Caches

Orosa, Lois

XX Jornadas de Paralelismo, A Coruña, Spain

July 2009
Introduction to microprocessors and microcontrollers

Orosa, Lois

XCARFOS Summer course (Days of automatic control and robotics with open source tools)

Public Engagement and Institutional Impact (Incomplete)

April 20
Round table and talk: Galicia's Quantum Strategy, Projects and Infraestructures

Orosa, Lois

Italy-Spain bilateral Meeting on Quantum Technologies, Madrid (Italian Embassy and Blas Cabrera Institute)

April 10, 2026
Talk: Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA): Unha oportunidade para o ecosistema de I+D+i de Galicia

Orosa, Lois

TTick Talks (Attlantic, UVIGO)

April 9, 2026
Talk: 1HealthAI: Factoría Europea de IA para Unha Soa Saúde

Orosa, Lois

Cátedra Camelia (CiTIUS)

April 9, 2026
Talk: Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)

Orosa, Lois

Visit of Óscar López, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Spain

February 4, 2026
Talk: 1HealthAI: a intelixencia artificial ao servizo da saúde, da biotecnoloxía e da transformación do coñecemento

Orosa, Lois

Acto de entrega dos Premios de Investigación en Saúde Transfronteiriza Galicia–Norte de Portugal (PISGa)

March 13, 2026
Round Table: Infraestruturas e dados abertos (CESGA e DEUCALION)

Orosa, Lois

II Encontro Luso-Galaico de PLN, Santiago de Compostela

January 14, 2026
July 4, 2025
June 6, 2024
Jornada de Usuarios 2024

Orosa, Lois

CESGA

Web

December 18, 2023
CESGA, unha Infraestructura na Vangarda da Computación Europea

Orosa, Lois

Os luns no Ateneo, Santiago de Compostela

Video

November 19, 2023
Galicia por Diante Fin de Semana

Orosa, Lois ; López, Ignacio

Regional radio (RTVG)

Web

October 27, 2023
Talk: CESGA in the Quantum Computing Era

Orosa, Lois

Corunna Innovate Summit, Coruña

October 22, 2023
Interview for Sois los primeros

Orosa, Lois

esRadio

Web

October 19, 2023
El Correo Gallego mesa redonda FUTURIBLES

Orosa, Lois ; Alonso, Manuel Ángel ; Otero, María Antonia

El Correo Gallego, Santiago de Compostela

Web

October 14, 2023
Interview for TVG

Orosa, Lois

Galicia Regional Television (TVG)

Web

October 4, 2023
Reportaxe TVG

Orosa, Lois

Galicia Regional Television (TVG)

Web

October 3, 2023
QMIO Report

Orosa, Lois

CESGA

Web

October 2, 2023
QMIO Premiere

Orosa, Lois

CESGA

Video

July 15, 2022
Galicia Quantum Technologies Hub: Presentation Act

Orosa, Lois

Santiago de Compostela

Video

April 21, 2023
March 20, 2023
Quantum Computing Report

Orosa, Lois

GCiencia

Web

October 14, 2022
Finisterrae III Report

Orosa, Lois

El País

Web

October 3, 2022
Interview: Finisterrae III

Orosa, Lois ; Martell, Chema

A Golpe de Bit (RTVE)

May 20, 2022
Finisterrae III Premiere

Orosa, Lois

CESGA

March 10, 2022
Interview for Radio Galega

Orosa, Lois

Galicia Regional Radio (RTVG)

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Honors and Awards

2025
Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security 2025
Top Picks

The paper Revisiting RowHammer: An Experimental Analysis of Modern DRAM Devices and Mitigation Techniques, was awarded a Top Pick in Hardware and Embedded Security 2025. The Top Picks award recognizes the best of the best in hardware security from among all hardware security papers published in the last six years, across all top security (e.g., IEEE S&P, USENIX SEC), architecture (e.g., ISCA, ASPLOS), computer-aided design (e.g., ICCAD, DAC, DATE) and hardware security (CHES) venues.

2023
RYC2023-045785-I, Ramon y Cajal Tenure Track Contract
Ministry of Science of Spain

Ranked 1st in Information and Communication Technologies area. Title More Capable, Secure and Efficient DRAM Main Memory Designs and Computer Architectures. Score 100/100, 251.800 EUR

2023
R3 Certificate (established researcher)
Ministry of Science of Spain

Certificate given to researchers who have developed a level of independence. Score 96/100.

2022
Intel Hardware Security Academic Award 2022
Intel

The paper BlockHammer: Preventing RowHammer at Low Cost by Blacklisting Rapidly-Accessed DRAM Rows was nominated as a finalist for the Intel Hardware Security Academic Award 2022 (one of 4 finalists out of 34 nominations)

Since 2017
18 HiPEAC paper awards
HiPEAC

I received 18 HiPEAC paper awards since 2017. The HiPEAC Paper Award aims to encourage HiPEAC members to publish their work at conferences in which Europe is not strongly represented. The award is given to a HiPEAC member who presents a full paper in one of the following list of conferences, ASPLOS, DAC, FCCM, HPCA, ISCA, MICRO, PLDI, POPL

Service

Program Committees
  • The 40th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2026)
  • The 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2024)
  • The 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2023)
  • Sixth Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES 2022), co-located with ACM CCS 2022
  • Fifth Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES 2021), co-located with ACM CCS 2021
Organizing Committees
  • Quantum Information in Spain 2023 (ICE-8)
Reviewer
  • Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) [2025, 2026]
  • Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) [2025]
  • The Supercomputing Journal [2023]
  • Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS) [2022]
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) [2020]
  • Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) [2020]
  • IEEE MICRO [2019, 2020]
  • Computers and Security [2019]
  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) [2019]
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers [2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2024]
  • ERAD-SP [2018]
  • Journal of Universal Computer Science [2018]
Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Galtia Foundation for attracting high-level research talent (GALTIA) [2026]

Skills

Programming Languages : C/C++, assembly, Python, Perl, Java, VHDL, Latex
Tools : Intel Instrumentation Pin Tool, DRAM Bender, SoftMC, Git
Simulators : Simics, GEMS, gem5, QEMU, Ramulator, Bochs, ZSim, DRAMSim, McPath, Spice, DRAMPower

Languages

Galician : Native speaker
Spanish : Native speaker
English : Fluent
Portuguese : Professional working proficiency