Aleksandar Ilic

Aleksandar Ilic is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, and a Senior Researcher at the Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) Group at INESC-ID, Lisbon. His research focuses on high-performance computing, energy-efficient architectures, and heterogeneous systems. He holds a Ph.D. from IST, supervised by Prof. Leonel Sousa.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico (2014)
• M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia (2007)

Research Interests:

His work emphasizes optimizing computational performance and energy efficiency in modern architectures, including GPUs, FPGAs, and multi-core CPUs. Key areas include epistasis detection in bioinformatics, cache-aware performance modeling (CARM), and parallel processing frameworks for heterogeneous systems. Recent projects like SparCity and IntelCARM aim to enhance sparse computation and roofline model applications.

Awards & Grants:

• Intel Innovator Award (2020)
• HiPEAC Tech Transfer Award (2017)
• Multiple Excellence in Teaching Awards from IST students (2015–2020)
• Intel Research Grants (2018–2020)

Advising & Labs:

He supervises M.Sc. students in topics like FPGA acceleration for epistasis detection, GPU performance modeling, and secure embedded systems. His lab develops tools like CARM and collaborates on EU-funded projects such as SparCity.