About
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Toronto working with Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko and the EcoSystem research group. I am also working with the SAFARI research group, which is led by Prof. Onur Mutlu. I received my Ph.D. in October 2022 from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where I was a member of the Computing Systems Laboratory and I was advised by Prof. Georgios Goumas, Prof. Nectarios Koziris and Prof. Onur Mutlu.
My research interests lie in the intersection of computer architecture and high-performance computing. My current research focuses in the hardware/software co-design of emerging applications, including graph processing, pointer-chasing data structures, machine learning workloads, and sparse linear algebra, with modern computing paradigms, such as large-scale multicore systems, disaggregated memory systems and near-data processing architectures. I am also excited about designing scalable memory hierarchies and efficient hardware support for synchronization and concurrency.
During my PhD studies, I had been receiving a PhD award (Sep 2021-Oct 2022) from the Foundation for Education and European Culture, and a PhD Fellowship (Oct 2017-Mar 2020) from the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). I was fortunate to also be a visiting PhD researcher in the SAFARI research group at ETH Zürich advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu and mentored by Prof. Nandita Vijaykumar. I hold a M.Eng. equivalent degree (2011-2016) from ECE NTUA, where I graduated in the top 2% of my class.
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