Christina Giannoula
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About Me

I am a Tenure-Track Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), where I lead the SPIN research group. I am also an Associated Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Saarland University.

My research interests lie in the intersection of computer architecture, computer systems, high performance computing, and sustainable computing. My current research focuses on the hardware/software co-design of emerging applications, particularly AI/ML, with modern computing systems. I design solutions across the entire system stack, from software down to hardware, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as processing-in-memory and disaggregation. My work targets improvements in performance, scalability, programmability, and sustainability.

Before joining MPI-SWS, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Toronto. I received my Ph.D. from the 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. During my PhD studies, I had received a PhD award from the Foundation for Education and European Culture, and a PhD Fellowship from the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). I hold a M.Eng. equivalent degree from ECE NTUA, where I graduated in the top 2% of my class.

I am looking for motivated researchers and students to join my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). If you are interested in doing research with me, check out our hiring page and feel free to reach out (christina.giann@gmail.com).

News

  • 04/2026 - Our work DCC: Data-Centric Tensor Compilation for PIM Architectures has been accepted at ISCA 2026. Congratulations Peiming, Sankeerth, Ivan and all co-authors!
  • 04/2026 - Our Spira source code is now freely available at github.com/SPIN-Research-Group/Spira.
  • 04/2026 - I will be giving an invited talk at DaMoN workshop co-located with SIGMOD 2026 in Bengaluru, India on June 1st, 2026.
  • 04/2026 - Prathamesh Doundkar has joined the SPIN research group as a Master's student. Welcome!
  • 04/2026 - Our work Polaris has been accepted at DAC LBR 2026.
  • 03/2026 - Our work RevaMp3D has been accepted at ACM TACO 2026.
  • 01/2026 - Spira, the first work that exploits fine-grained voxel data properties to accelerate performance of Point Cloud Networks, has been accepted at MLSys 2026. Congratulations to all co-authors and special credits to Dionysios and Anastasia!
  • 12/2025 - I will be giving a talk at ECE NTUA in December 2025, hosted by the MICROLAB research group.
  • 11/2025 - I will be giving a talk at ETH Zurich in December 2025, hosted by the SAFARI research group.
  • 11/2025 - Dionysios Adamopoulos has joined the SPIN research group. Welcome!
  • 09/2025 - We are hiring at multiple levels! Feel free to reach out!
  • 09/2025 - Founded the SPIN research group!
  • 09/2025 - I will be joining Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) as a Faculty! :)

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