Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis is a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and faculty member at the Faculty of Informatics (FIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
He holds a PhD and a MSc in Computer Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He received his BSc in Computer Science from University of Crete with valedictorian, ranked 1st among the students of all the Departments of Science and Engineering.
His PhD thesis has been awarded with an Honourable Mention for the EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award 2018, which is awarded to the best dissertation in the area of systems in Europe and has been the basis of the successful FP7 PROARTIS and PROXIMA projects with his hardware proposals successfully transferred to industry through the LEON3 Probabilistic Platform.
In 2013 he interned at the Media Processing Department of ARM Holdings at Cambridge, working on performance tuning and OpenCL code generation improvement of the Mali T6xx family of mobile GPUs, supported by a HiPEAC Industrial Internship Grant.
Dr. Kosmidis has participated in several European and ESA-funded projects, with most recent the FP7 project PROXIMA, where he was the technical leader of software randomisation activities. He is currently leading the embedded accelerator (GPU and FPGA) system software activities for critical systems in the CAOS group and he is the PI of an Intel Hardware Accelerator Research Program (HARP) v2 project and the co-coordinator of the GPU4S (GPU for Space) ESA funded project.