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.

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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