Presenter

Dimitrios Nikolopoulos is the John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Professor by courtesy in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He conducts research in Computer Systems and High-Performance Computing. Some of his prior research has been adopted in the OpenMP parallel programming standard, RedHat Enterprise Linux, and several commercial system software products, including parallelizing compilers, in-memory databases, and data stream processing systems, as well as numerous experimental operating systems and programming languages for multicore and multithreaded servers. More details about his research are available in his DBLP, Google Scholar, ORCID, or Scopus profiles. Dimitrios is teaching courses in Computer Organization, Systems and Networking Capstone, Multiprocessor Programming and Warehouse-Scale Computing.

Dimitrios is an IEEE Fellow, a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow, a Fellow of the AAIA, a Fellow of the BCS, a Fellow of the IET, and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. In addition, he has received numerous prestigious personal investigator and faculty awards (including the NSF CAREER, DOE Early Career, IBM Faculty Award, Cisco Faculty Awards, SFI-DEL Investigator Award, Marie Curie Individual Fellowship), nine best paper awards from premier conferences (including SC, PPoPP, IPDPS, CCGRID, and DATE), three Best Paper Award nominations (from ICS, SC, and HPDC) and two awards for editorial excellence (from the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems). He has chaired the Program Committee of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing in 2022 and 2023. His research has been supported with $36.5 million of external funding (personal share of a total of $103.7 million in competitive funding) from NSF, DOE, the European Commission, EPSRC, SFI, IBM, Cisco, and Sony.

Dimitrios served in major University leadership roles, including Head of the School of EEECS at QUB, Director of the ECIT Global Innovation Institute, and Director of the QUB HPC Working Group. During his tenure in leadership roles, he received on behalf of the School two awards for efforts to improve diversity and inclusion (Athena Swan Silver, Investors in People Silver).

Dimitrios currently leads the PEARL (Performance and Resiliency) lab at Virginia Tech. He is also Associate Director of the Stack@CS Center for Computer Systems, with a remit to advance cross-stack collaborative research against significant challenges in computing systems.