Biography:Christos Kozyrakis

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Short description: Professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Christos Kozyrakis
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Heraklion, Greece
Nationality
  • Greek
  • United States
Known forComputer architecture, Transactional memory, Computer systems
Awards
  • Maurice Wilkes Award (2015)
  • IEEE Fellow (2015)
  • ACM Fellow (2016)
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]

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