Presenter

Dimitrios Nikolopoulos is Professor in High Performance and Distributed Computing and Director of the Global Research Institute on Electronics, Communication and Information Technologies (ECIT) at Queen's University of Belfast. His research expertise is in system software, with emphasis on performance, power and reliability aspects of servers and large-scale systems. Dimitrios is the recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the DOE CAREER Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the SFI-DEL Investigator Award and Best Paper Awards from some of the premier IEEE and ACM conferences, including SC, PPoPP, and IPDPS. Dimitrios is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET), Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), Senior Member of the IEEE and Senior Member of the ACM. He earned PhD (2000), MSc (1997) and BEng (1996) degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras.