Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

he/him

John W. Hancock Jr. Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech

Service

Across more than two decades, my service to the computing community has spanned the leadership of flagship conferences and journals, hundreds of peer-review and program-committee appointments, and research-funding evaluation for national agencies on four continents — alongside sustained academic leadership at Virginia Tech and Queen’s University Belfast. The record below captures both the breadth and the depth of that engagement, nationally and internationally.

2Flagship conferences led as Steering Committee Chair (ICS, ISPASS)
15×Program Chair / Co-Chair appointments (by year)
15×General Chair appointments (by year)
215+Program-committee appointments (each conference-year)
17Journal editorial & associate-editor roles held
45+Research-funding panels across 15+ agencies & nations
Funding & evaluation service spanning
United States · United Kingdom · European Union · Canada · France · Switzerland · Germany · Italy · Netherlands · Austria · Sweden · Poland · Norway · Greece · Cyprus · Israel (binational)

Conference & Community Leadership

Steering, chairing, and shaping the direction of the field’s leading systems and high-performance computing venues.

Steering Committee Chair
Steering Committee Member
Program Chair / Co-Chair
Program Vice-Chair / Area Chair
General Chair

Program Committees

More than 215 program-committee appointments since 2001 — counting each conference-year separately — across 50+ distinct venues spanning architecture, systems, HPC, and AI, including senior- and area-committee roles.

SC ×8 ISCA ASPLOS ×2 MICRO ERC HPCA ACL ERC SoCC ERC PPoPP ×6 PACT AAAI Senior PC IPDPS ×9 HPDC ICS ×9 ICPP ×12 CCGRID Euro-Par CLUSTER ISC HiPC IEEE BigData ParCo HiPEAC Computing Frontiers SBAC-PAD + 30 more

Additional committee service includes External Review Committees (MICRO, PPoPP), Reproducibility & Artifact Evaluation (SC, IEEE TPDS), the SC HPC Impact Showcase (Chair, 2017), Tutorials/Workshops chairing at ICS, ISC, and HiPEAC, and Finance Chair at ICS (2009) and EuroMPI (2011). Session Chair on 26 occasions, including the ICS keynote sessions (2022, 2023).

Editorial Boards & Journals

Seventeen editorial appointments across the leading journals in high-performance and sustainable computing. I concluded my four remaining board appointments in 2026.

Sustained reviewing for the field’s top journals and publishers — including ACM TOCS, ACM TOPLAS, ACM TACO, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, and IEEE Micro — across more than 40 distinct outlets.

Research Funding Panels — National & International

More than 45 panel and proposal-evaluation appointments — counting each year separately — for government and national funding agencies worldwide.

United States
United Kingdom & European Union
Europe (national agencies)
Canada
  • NSERC — Discovery Grants Panelist — 2014, 2015, 2016 (Reviewer, 2007)

External Leadership, Advisory & Evaluation

University & Departmental Leadership

Virginia Tech
Queen’s University Belfast
  • Head of School, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science — 2016–2018
  • Director, ECIT Global Innovation Institute — 2018–2019; Acting Director, Centre for Data Science & Scalable Computing — 2016–2019
  • REF Champion (Computer Science & Engineering); Faculty Executive Board — 2016–2019; Academic Council — 2016–2018
  • Chair, University HPC Advisory Group — 2012–2019; Vice-Chancellor Selection Panel — 2017

As Head of School at Queen’s, the School of EEECS earned the Athena SWAN Silver and Investors in People Silver awards for diversity and inclusion, and reached record research expenditure and enrollment.

Professional Societies & Fellowships

Recognition for Service

Public Engagement & Outreach

Translating computing research for broad audiences — on AI, supercomputing, and the societal and economic impact of data centers.