CV

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 2000
M.Eng. in Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 1997
Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 1996
- A European Diploma in Engineering is a five-year university degree. It sits between a U.S. bachelor’s and master’s degree.

Fellowships & Distinctions

Fellow, IEEE, 2024 — “For contributions to dynamic execution environments and multiprocessor memory management”
Fellow, International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, 2024
Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, 2023
Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2017
Fellow, British Computer Society, 2014
Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, 2025
Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society, 2024
Distinguished Contributor, IEEE Computer Society, 2022
Distinguished Member, ACM, 2018
Senior Member, ACM, 2011
Senior Member, IEEE, 2010
Marie Curie Fellow, 2009
HiPEAC Fellow, 2008

Research & Career Awards

Service & Editorial Recognition

Outstanding Service Award, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2026
IEEE Award for Editorial Excellence, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2020
Elsevier Distinguished Editorial Service Award, 2019
IEEE Outstanding Service Award, 2010, 2014, 2018
Investors in People Silver Award, 2017

Best Paper Awards & Nominations

Best Paper Award, Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2020
HiPEAC Paper Award, twice in 2020 (ASPLOS 2020 and MICRO 2020 papers)
Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2020
Best Paper Award, ACM International Workshop on Code Optimization for Multi and Many Cores (COSMIC), 2013
Best Paper Award Nomination, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2010
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2007
Best Paper Award Nomination, ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2006
Best Paper Award, International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP), 2005
Best Paper Award, International Symposium on High-Performance Computing (ISHPC), 2003
Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), 2002
Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2002
Best Paper Award Nomination, ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2001
Best Paper Award Nomination, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC), 2001
Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC), 2000
Best Paper Award Nomination, ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 1999

Early Recognition

Outstanding Academic Performance Award, Technical Chamber of Greece, 1996
Outstanding Academic Performance Award, Technical Chamber of Greece, 1993
Outstanding Academic Performance Award, National Scholarships Foundation of Greece, 1992

Virginia Tech

Aug 2019 - present: John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering
Aug 2019 - present: Professor, Department of Computer Science
Aug 2020 - present: Professor by courtesy, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aug 2022 - present: Associate Director, Stacks@CS Center for Computer Systems Research
Oct 2016 - Aug 2019: Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science

Concurrent appointments

Sep 2015 - present: Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellow
Aug 2022 - present: Honorary Professor, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast
Oct 2013 - present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University

Queen’s University Belfast

Jan 2012 - Aug 2019: Professor and Chair in High Performance and Distributed Computing, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019: Director, Research Institute in Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018: Head of School, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Feb 2016 - Aug 2019: Director, Center for Data Science and Scalable Computing
Jan 2012 - Feb 2016: Director, High Performance and Distributed Computing Research Cluster

Earlier appointments

Sep 2009 - Jan 2012: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
Sep 2009 - Jan 2012: Affiliate Professor, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Aug 2008 - Sep 2009: Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Aug 2006 - Aug 2008: Associate Professor, tenure-track, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Aug 2002 - Aug 2006: Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Department of Computer Science, College of William & Mary
Jan 2001 - Aug 2002: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sep 1996 - Dec 2000: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras