Nectarios Koziris is a Professor of Computer Science and the former Dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is a member of the Administrative Board of NTUA. His research interests include large scale/high performance computing systems and architectures. He has co-authored more than 180 research papers with more than 6500 citations (h-index:36). He is a recipient of several best paper awards for his research in parallel and distributed computing and had received honorary recognition from Intel (2015) for his research and insightful contributions in transactional memory (TSX synchronization extensions) for the Haswell processors. Nectarios has served as the Vice-Chair for the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET). He was the founder of the ~okeanos project, a public Cloud IaaS infrastructure, among the biggest ones in the European public sector (topping out beyond 10.000 active VMs), powered by the open source Synnefo software (www.synnefo.org). From 2019, he is serving as the national delegate at the European High Performance Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), where he is a member of the Governing Board. In the past twenty-five years, he initiated and designed several large scale computing systems infrastructures in EU and Greece, including cloud, network and supercomputers, and recently the Daedalus supercomputer.
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