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Dr Manuel Alejandro Barranco González

Dr Manuel Alejandro Barranco González
Senior lecturer
Computer Architecture and Technology
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Curriculum

Brief CV

Manuel Barranco received the degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Informatics from the UIB in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Mathematics and Informatics (DMI) at the UIB. He was the secretary of the Consell d'Estudis del Grau de Matemàtiques (CEGMat) of the UIB from 2012 to 2015; he is the Student Mobility Coordinator for the degree in Informatics of the UIB's Polytechnical School (EPS) since 2015; and forms part of the Comissió de Direcció of the DMI since 2020.

He has (co)supervised 2 Ph.D thesis (co-supervising 1 more), as well a several master thesis, final 'Licenciatura' and final 'Grado' degree projects in Informatics and Industrial Engineering. All these works received the grade of excelente. He has been involved in several national research projects as a member of the research team.

His research interests include Dependable Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems, Adaptive Systems, Dependability Evaluation, and Industrial Networks such as Fieldbuses and the TSN Ethernet Standards. He is co-author of more than 50 publications in international scientific conferences and journals; and of 3 patents for improving the reliability of CAN. Papers co-authored by him received the best paper award at the IEEE WFCS 2004; and the best work-in-progress paper award at the IEEE ETFA 2012, at IEEE WFCS 2014 and at IEEE WFCS 2016.

His Ph.D, which received the distinction of cum laude, was carried out as an international collaboration between his UIB's research group - Systems Robotics and Vision (SRV) - and the Embedded Systems Lab (ESL) of the Telecommunications Institute (IT) of the University of Aveiro (UA). He carried out a Ph.D stay at the UA from April 1st 2004 to July 31st 2005; and a Post-Doc stay at the Distributed And Real Time Embedded Systems (DARTES) research group of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade de Porto (FEUP), from October 1st 2010 to February 4th 2011. These research stays were respectively supported by the grant Bolsa Iniciação à Investigação Científica of the IEETA, and the competitive research grant Bolsa de Investigação SFRH / BPD / 70317 / 2010 of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) of Portugal. Nowadays he keeps an strong research cooperation with some IT's members; as well as with the Distributed And Real Time Embedded Systems (DARTES) group of the FEUP in Porto, where he carried out a granted postdoctoral stay.

He is member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE ETFA conference since 2014. He also served as a member of the Local Organization Committee of the IEEE ETFA 2009, IEEE WFCS 2015 and EAI ValueTools 2019; and as the Financial Chair of the IEEE WFCS 2015. He is member of the Sub-Committee on Fault-Tolerant and Dependable Systems of the Technical Committee on Factory Automation (TCFA) of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) http://ies-tcfa.dieei.unict.it/members1617. He has acted as a technical reviewer for several international conferences, e.g., ETFA, WFCS, IECON, TIME, INDIN, RTN); as well as for first-quartile international journals like the TII, TIE, TVT, RESS, TECS and the Industrial Electronics Magazine.

Dr. Barranco is specialized in the design of fault tolerant architectures and communication subsystems for real-time Distributed Critical Embedded Systems (DECs), as well as in the quantitative modeling of their reliability. In the medium and long terms he will focus his research efforts on applying and extending the just mentioned skills to improving and quantifying the reliability of adaptive DECs, specially those relying on the new TSN standards, which will most likely become the Link Layer for the future integration of data and automation networks.

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Teaching, 5 previous years

Subject Information
11571 - Master's Thesis
  • Master's Degree in Computing Engineering (2014)2018-19
11769 - System Connectivity and Integration in IoT
21706 - Computer Structure I
  • Degree in Informatics Engineering2022-23
  • Degree in Informatics Engineering (2014 syllabus)2022-23
22422 - Industrial Communication Networks
22449 - Embedded Systems
22497 - Digital Electronics
  • Degree in Automation and Industrial Electronic Engineering2018-19, 2019-20

Research

Research groups

Group Membership type
Systems, Robotics and Vision (SRV) Member
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