Christos Kozyrakis

Christos Kozyrakis
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Heraklion, Greece
Nationality
Known forComputer architecture, Transactional memory, Computer systems
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering, Computer Science
Institutions
ThesisScalable Vector Media-processors for Embedded Systems (2002)
Doctoral advisorDavid Patterson

Christos (Christoforos) Kozyrakis (Greek: Χρίστος (Χριστόφορος) Κοζυράκης; born 1974[1]) is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST). His current research interests are on resource efficient cloud computing,[2] energy efficient compute and memory systems, and architectural support for security. Kozyrakis was the 2015 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to transactional memory systems.[3]

Kozyrakis holds a Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley (advised by David A. Patterson) and a B.Sc. from University of Crete. He is an IEEE fellow[4] and an ACM fellow.[5]

References

  1. ^ Chavanne, Yannick (2015-03-09). "Deux professeurs d'informatique américains rejoignent l'EPFL" [Two American computer science professors join EPFL] (in French). ICT Journal.
  2. ^ Making Cloud-Computing Systems More Efficient, NY Times, March 6, 2014
  3. ^ "ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award Past Winners". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  4. ^ "2015 Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows" (PDF). IEEE. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-03-30.
  5. ^ "Christoforos Kozyrakis - Award Winner". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2016-12-22.


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