Angelos Bilas

Angelos Bilas is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, Greece, where he has also held an Associate Professor position between 2002-2011, and a collaborating researcher at FORTH-ICS. Prof. Bilas received his diploma in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras in 1993, and the Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Princeton University, NJ in 1995 and 1998 respectively. Between 1998-2002 he held an Assistant Professor position with the ECE Department at the University of Toronto. His current interests include systems software for efficient storage systems, computing and storage architectures, low-latency high-bandwidth communication protocols, and runtime-system support for parallel systems. His work has been published in prestigious conferences in computer architecture and systems. He has been the PI for more than 35 EU or nationally funded projects and has been the coordinator of the FP7 EU project IOLanes [2010-2013]. He has collaborated extensively with international industry while his research has been licensed to startups (two rounds of research results) and has been used in products by Fortune50 companies. [http://www.ics.forth.gr/~bilas]