Profesores

Claudio Torres
claudio.torres@inf.utfsm.cl
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Delaware, USA.
Master in Applied Mathematics, University of Delaware, USA.
Magíster en Ciencias de la Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Valparaíso, Chile.
Ingeniería Civil en Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Valparaíso, Chile.

Áreas de especialización

Computación científica, computación de alto desempeño, análisis numérico, álgebra lineal numérica, precondicionadores de sistemas de ecuaciones lineales, análisis y computación de métodos de vórtices, dinámica de fluidos, métodos de partículas, sistemas dinámicos y crecimiento de granos en policristales. Más información en el siguiente enlace.
Oficina F-222 Campus Casa Central Valparaíso
+56322654418
Publicaciones
-Daniel San Martin and Claudio E. Torres. “A GPU Numerical Implementation of a 2D Simplified Wildfire Spreading Model”. 10th Latin American Conference, CARLA 2023, Cartagena, Colombia, September 18–22, 2023, Revised Selected Papers. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52186-7_9.

-José Rivera, Daniel San Martin, Michael Gollner, Claudio E. Torres, Carlos Fernandez-Pello. “A machine learning approach to predict the critical heat flux for ignition of solid fuels”, Fire Safety Journal, Volume 141, 2023, 103968, ISSN 0379-7112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fire-saf.2023.103968.

-Sebastián Bórquez, Raquel Pezoa, Luis Salinas, Claudio E. Torres. “Uncertainty estimation in the classification of histopathological images with HER2 overexpression using Monte Carlo Dropout”, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Volume 85, 2023, 104864, ISSN 1746-8094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2023.104864.

-San Martín, Daniel, Torres, Claudio E.. “2D Simplified Wildfire Spreading Model in Python: From NumPy to CuPy”, CLEI electronic journal, 25-05-2023. https://doi.org/10.19153/cleiej.26.1.5.

-Pezoa, R., Salinas, R., and Torres, C.. “Explainability of High Energy Physics Events Classification Using SHAP” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2438, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 012082. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2438/1/012082.

-Casas, F., Torres, C.E. and Araya, I. “A heuristic search based on diversity for solving combinatorial problems”. J Heuristics 28, 287–328 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-022-09494-4

-Tobar, F.M. and Torres, C.E.. “Multi-OctConv: Reducing Memory Requirements in Image Generative Adversarial Networks”. Proceedings - International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC. Year 2020. Volume 2020-November. https://doi.org/10.1109/sccc51225.2020.9281213.

-León, R., Salinas, L. and Torres, C.E.. “A computational model for multiple collisions of rigid bodies: An extension of A − CD2 method”. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems, ECCM 2018 and 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2018. Published 2020.

-Salinas, Á., Torres, C., and Ayala, O. (2020). “A fast and efficient integration of boundary conditions into a unified CUDA Kernel for a shallow water solver lattice Boltzmann Method”. Computer Physics Communications, 249(2020), 107009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107009.

-Sazo, A. H. J., Torres, C. E., Emelianenko, M., Golovaty, D. (2019). “A vertex model of recrystallization with stored energy implemented in GPU”. Materials Research Express, 6(5), 055506. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab00f8.

-Sazo, A. H. J., Ibarra S., P., Sanhueza R., A., Casas, F. J. A., Torres, C. E., Emelianenko, M., Golovaty, D. (2019). “Evolution of twodimensional grain boundary networks implemented in GPU”. Computational Materials Science, 160(October 2018), 315–333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2019.01.022.

-Villanueva, M., Araya, M., Torres, C. E., Amigo, P. (2019). “HDMClouds: a hierarchical decomposition of molecular clouds based on Gaussian mixtures”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, (482), 2878–2892. http://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2788. (ISI: Impact Factor: 5.194 (2017), 4.893 (5 year), Q1).

-San Martín, D., Torres, C. E. (2018). “Ngen-Kütral: Toward an Open Source Framework for Chilean Wildfire Spreading”. In 2018 37th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) (accepted).

-Fernández, C., Salinas, L., Torres, C. E. (2018). “A meta extreme learning machine method for forecasting financial time series”. Applied Intelligence. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-018-1282-3. (ISI: Impact Factor: 1.983 (2017), 1.856 (5 year), Q2).

-Salinas, Á., Torres, C. E., Ayala, O. (2018). Well-balanced open boundary condition in a lattice Boltzmann model for shallow water with arbitrary bathymetry. Computer Physics Communications, 230, 89–98. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.04.021.. (ISI: Impact Factor: 3.748 (2017), 4.284 (5 year), Q1).

-Sazo, A. H. J., Torres, C. E. (2017). An implicit-transition model for numerical simulation of 3D grain growth. In 2017 36th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) (pp. 1–6). IEEE. ttp://doi.org/10.1109/SCCC.2017.8405148.

-R., A. S., Torres, C. E. (2017). A matrix-free algorithm based on Newton’s method for overdetermined nonlinear system of equations. In 2017 36th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) (pp. 1–9). IEEE. http://doi.org/10.1109/SCCC.2017.8405146.

-Raquel Pezoa, Luis Salinas, Claudio Torres, Steffen Härtel, Cristián Maureira-Fredes and Paola Arce. Segmentation of HER2 protein overexpression in immunohistochemically stained breast cancer images using Support Vector Machines. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 762, Number 1. 2016.

-I. Yegorov, C. E. Torres, M. Emelianenko A Boltzmann-type kinetic model for misorientation distribution functions in two-dimensional fibertexture polycrystalline grain growth. Acta Materialia, Volume 109, 1 May 2016, Pages 230-247. (ISI, Impact Factor: 4.465).

-Claudio Torres, Maria Emelianenko, Dmitry Golovaty, David Kinderlehrer, Shlomo Ta’asan. Numerical Analysis of the vertex models for simulating grain boundary networks. SIAM J. on Applied Mathematics, 75(2), 762?786. April 2015. (ISI, Impact factor: 1.428).

-R. León, L. Salinas, C. Torres, and G. Hernández A new parallel numerical model for multiple collisions. 1st Panamerican Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2015. Conference.

-Torres, C. E., Parishani, H., Ayala, O., Rossi, L. and Wang, L.-P. Analysis and parallel implementation of a forced N-body problem, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 245, 15 July 2013, Pages 235-258, ISSN 0021-9991, 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.03.008. (ISI, Impact factor: 2.877, Clasificación: Q1).

-Lian-Ping Wang, Orlando Ayala, Hossein Parishani, Wojciech W Grabowski, Andrzej A Wyszogrodzki, Zbigniew Piotrowski, Guang R Gao, Chandra Kambhamettu, Xiaoming Li, Louis Rossi, Daniel Orozco and Claudio Torres (2011) Towards an integrated multiscale simulation of turbulent clouds on PetaScale computers. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318, 072021 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/318/7/072021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/318/7/072021

-Li, K., Torres, C. E. , Thomas, K., Rossi, L., and Shen, C. C. (2011). Slime mold inspired routing protocols for wireless sensor networks. Swarm Intelligence, 5(3-4), 183-223. (ISI, Impact Factor: 2.160).

-Torres, C. E., Rossi, L. F., Keffer, J., Li, K., and Shen, C.-C. (2010). Modeling, analysis and simulation of ant-based network routing protocols. Swarm Intelligence, 4(3), 221-244. (ISI, Impact Factor: 2.160).

-Li, K., Thomas, K., Torres, C., Rossi, L., and Shen, C. C. (2010). Slime mold inspired path formation protocol for wireless sensor networks. Swarm Intelligence, (Saso 2009), 299-311. Springer.

-Torres, C. E., and Barba, L. A. (2009). Fast radial basis function interpolation with Gaussians by localization and iteration. Journal of Computational Physics, 228(14), 4976-4999. (ISI, Impact factor: 2.877).
Proyectos
-2016-2018. A Parallel Implementation Of A New Fully Coupled 2D Grain Growth Model A Parallel Implementation Of A New Fully Coupled 2D Grain Growth Model. PI. FONDECYT de Iniciación en Investigación N◦11160744.

-2016-2018. High performance implementation of the LBM in a GPU for the SWE A high performance implementation of The Lattice Boltzmann Method for the Shallow Water Equation in a GPU cluster: An alternative method for numerical simulation of Tsunamis. CCTVal, Chile. PI.

-2014-2015. Grain Growth Internal project: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Grain Growth in 2D. UTFSM, Chile. PI.

-2015-2017. Geometric Function Theory and Computational Methods Fondecyt 1150810, UTFSM, Chile. Co-Investigador.

-Since 2014. CCTVal Researcher Proyecto Basal FB0821, UTFSM, Chile. Researcher.

-2013-2015. Tsunamis Diseño e implementación de una base de datos de predicción de tsunamis para la costa chilena utilizando modelación computacional de alto rendimiento, Fondef: D11I1119, UTFSM, Chile. Researcher. (Se extiende hasta 2016).

-Grain Growth Multiscale modeling/simulation/analysis of complex materials systems. This research was part of my postdoctoral training with Dr. Maria Emelianenko from Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Meson University and in collaboration with Dr. Dmitry Golovaty from Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The University of Akron.

-PetaApps Collaborative Research: PetaApps: Enabling Multiscale Modeling of Turbulent Clouds on Petascale Computers. PI: Lian-Ping Wang. CoPIs: Guang Gao, Chandra Kambhamettu, Xiaoming Li and Louis Rossi. NSF Office of CyberInfrastructure: PetaApps. OCI-0904534. My involvement in this project was as a graduate student. The project has been to design accurate and computationally efficient algorithms for the solution of a linear system of equation in Peta-scale computer and analysis of the underlying mathematical model. The research has required direct collaboration with faculty, postdoc and graduate students from Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, and scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA.

-Ants and Slime-Mold Bio-Inspired Approaches to Secure Scalable Networking. PI: ChienChung Shen, Co-PI: Louis Rossi. Industrial partner: Scalable Technologies. US Army Small Business Innovative Research Phase I. A072-074-1669. My involvement in this project was as a graduate student. The project has been to model and analysis of ant-based and slime-mold-based algorithms use in wired network of computer. The research required direct collaboration with faculty and graduate students from Computer Science at the University of Delaware.
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