CV

Education

• B.S. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 2013
• Ph.D in Computer Science, The University of Manchester, 2018

Work experience

• 08/2023 - now: Research Fellow at The University of Manchester

• 12/2018 - 07/2023: Research Associate at The University of Manchester

• 09/2016 - 01/2018: Teaching Assistant at The University of Manchester

• 09/2014 - 09/2018: PhD Researcher at The University of Manchester

Skills

• Driver Development
• FPGA Development
  • VHDL, Verilog, Bluespec System Verilog
• Programming Languages
  • C, Java, OpenCL, CUDA
• Algorithm Acceleration

Awards

• Impact Champion at The University of Manchester (September 2021).
• Associate Fellow at Higher Education Academy - AFHEA (September 2020).
• ICURe grant by Innovate UK to undertake market exploration for research projects (September 2020).
• 1st place for the “Most Impressive use of an FPGA” category in ALTERA Europe-wide University Contest 2012-2013.

Open-Source Contributions

• TornadoVM: A practical heterogeneous programming framework for managed languages. GitHub
• TornadoInsight: Unleashing the Power of TornadoVM in IntelliJ IDEA. GitHub
• TornadoVM-Ray-Tracer: A real-time ray tracer in Java, accelerated on heterogeneous hardware using TornadoVM. GitHub
• FastPath_MP: An FPGA-based multi-path architecture for direct access from FPGA to NVMe SSD. GitHub

Publications

HPC-gSpan: An FPGA-based parallel system for frequent subgraph mining.

Project Beehive: A Hardware/Software Co-designed Stack for Runtime and Architectural Research.

FastPath: Towards Wire-speed NVMe SSDs.

Low Overhead & Energy Efficient Storage Path for Next Generation Computer Systems.

Towards Prototyping and Acceleration of Java Programs onto Intel FPGAs.

Efficient Compilation and Execution of JVM-Based Data Processing Frameworks on Heterogeneous Co-Processors.

Transparent Compiler and Runtime Specializations for Accelerating Managed Languages on FPGAs.

Transparent Acceleration of Java-based Deep Learning Engines.

Running Parallel Bytecode Interpreters on Heterogeneous Hardware.

FastPath_MP: Low Overhead & Energy-efficient FPGA-based Storage Multi-paths.

Multiple-Tasks on Multiple-Devices (MTMD): Exploiting Concurrency in Heterogeneous Managed Runtimes.

Automatically Exploiting the Memory Hierarchy of GPUs through Just-in-Time Compilation.

Enabling Pipeline Parallelism in Heterogeneous Managed Runtime Environments via Batch Processing.

Enabling Transparent Acceleration of Big Data Frameworks Using Heterogeneous Hardware.

Cross-Language Interoperability of Heterogeneous Code.

Scaling up Performance of Managed Applications on NUMA Systems.

Harnessing Hardware Acceleration with RISC-V and the EU Processor.

A Multifaceted Memory Analysis of Java Benchmarks.

Unified Shared Memory: Friend or Foe? Understanding the Implications of Unified Memory on Managed Heaps.

Beehive SPIR-V Toolkit: A Composable and Functional API for Runtime SPIR-V Code Generation.

Programming Heterogeneous Hardware via Managed Runtime Systems.

Towards GPU Accelerated FHE Computations.

Talks

TornadoVM: A Java Virtual Machine for Exploiting Heterogeneous Hardware

February 01, 2020

Accepted Talk at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

TornadoVM: Transparent Hardware Acceleration of Managed Languages

September 09, 2020

Lightning talk at Arm Research Summit, Virtual Event

TornadoVM: Hardware Acceleration For Java In Practice

February 05, 2022

Accepted Talk at FOSDEM, Online

Write Once, Run Anywhere… Well, What About Heterogeneous Hardware?

February 05, 2023

Accepted Talk at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

Cross-Language Interoperability of Heterogeneous Code

March 13, 2023

Accepted Talk at MoreVMs'23, Tokyo, Japan

TornadoVM: Write once, run everywhere…everywhere!

October 05, 2023

Accepted Talk at DEVOXX Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium

Java… to unlock GPU acceleration for Polyglot Language Runtimes

February 03, 2024

Accepted Talk at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium

Blogs

TornadoVM: Driving Java performance beyond the limits!

June 24, 2021

Public blog at elegant-h2020.eu, Online

Dynamic Reconfiguration with TornadoVM v1.0

June 24, 2021

Public blog at tango-project.eu, Online

Hardware Acceleration For Java? TornadoVM Can Do It!

April 01, 2022

Public blog at foojay.io, Online

Install TornadoVM on Apple M1 Pro

July 22, 2022

Public blog at tornadovm.org, Online

Migrating existing TornadoVM applications to TornadoVM v0.15

February 13, 2023

Public blog at tornadovm.org, Online

Hardware Acceleration For Java? TornadoVM Can Do It!

May 11, 2023

Public blog at foojay.io, Online

Hardware Acceleration for Polyglot Runtimes

December 20, 2023

Public blog at tornadovm.org, Online

Hardware Acceleration for FHE

January 09, 2024

Public blog at encrypt-project.eu, Online

Introducing TornadoInsight: Unleashing the Power of TornadoVM in IntelliJ IDEA

January 12, 2024

Public blog at tornadovm.org, Online

Defining patterns of data transfers for Java applications with TornadoVM

July 30, 2024

Public blog at tornadovm.org, Online

Build and Run TornadoVM with IntelliJ IDEA

November 01, 2024

Public blog at tornadovm.org, Online

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Tutor

Interests

• Football, Basketball, Badminton, Cinema, Theater