Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Dimitrios S. (Dimitris) Nikolopoulos is Professor in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen's University of Belfast, where he holds the Chair in High Performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC) and is Director of the HPDC Research Cluster. Professor Nikolopoulos is also an affiliated faculty member of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), and a member of the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory.

Research Interests

Hardware-software interface:

• chip multiprocessors
• computational accelerators
• programming models for ubiquitous parallelism
• scalable operating systems and hypervisors
• memory hierarchies
• energy-efficient parallel processing

Honors, Prizes and Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 01/2004.
• DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Award, 08/2005.
• IBM Faculty Award, 06/2007.
• Marie Curie Fellow, 12/2008.
• Best Paper Award, 12th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP), 03/2007.
• Best Paper Award, 1st International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP), 06/2005.
• Best Paper Award, 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC), 10/2003.
• Best Paper Award, Second IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), 05/2002.
• Best Paper Award, 16th IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium – Computer Architecture Track (IPDPS), 04/2002.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing’2000: High Performance Networking and Computing Conference (SC), 11/2000.
• Best Paper Award Nominations, HPDC (06/2006, nominated for journal submission), ICS (06/2001, nominated for journal submission), ICS (06/1999, nominated for journal submission).
• Keynote Speaker, 7thWorkshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC), 2006.
• Panelist, Accelerators: Fad, Fashion, or Future?, 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2010.
• Panelist, Key Challenges Presented by Next Generation Hardware Systems, Fall Creek Falls Conference, 2007.
• Outstanding Academic Performance Award, Technical Chamber of Greece, 1996.
• Outstanding Academic Performance Award, Greek Scholarship Foundation, 1992.

Short CV

Dimitrios S. (Dimitris) Nikolopoulos is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), where he is also a member of the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory. His research has contributed system components that improve the performance and energy efficiency of multi-core processors, computational accelerators, shared-memory multiprocessors and clusters. For his research work he has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Award, a Marie Curie Fellowship, and several best paper awards, including the Supercomputing'2000 Best Technical Paper Award and PPoPP'2007 Best Paper Award. Prior to joining the University of Crete and FORTH, he served as full-time faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the College of William and Mary and the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Professor Nikolopoulos teaches introductory and advanced courses on parallel computing, computer organization, and operating systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM. Professor Nikolopoulos earned a Diploma and a PhD in Computer Engineering from theUniversity of Patras.

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