Angelos Bilas

Angelos Bilas is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete and a collaborating researcher at FORTH-ICS. He holds a B.Eng. from the University of Patras (1993), and M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University (1995, 1998). His research focuses on computer systems, storage systems, and computer architecture, with recent emphasis on optimizing memory management and storage efficiency. Bilas has held roles such as Chair of the Department of Computer Science (2016–2020) and coordinated the FP7 EU project IOLanes (2010–2013). He serves on editorial boards, including ACM Transactions on Storage since 2016. His work has been recognized with awards like the Marie Curie Excellent Teams Award (2005–2009) and patents in storage and networking.

• Current affiliations: University of Crete (Professor), FORTH-ICS (Researcher)
• Educations: Ph.D. (Princeton, 1998), M.A. (Princeton, 1995), B.Eng. (Patras, 1993)

His research interests span storage systems, parallel architectures, and runtime systems. Recent work includes TeraHeap (ASPLOS'23) for big data frameworks and Tebis (EuroSys'22) for LSM key-value stores. His publications emphasize optimization in memory-mapped I/O, storage efficiency, and heterogeneous acceleration.

Awards include the Marie Curie Excellent Teams Award and four patents. He has supervised 35+ master's and 8+ Ph.D. students, contributing to over 45 EU/nationally funded projects. Current initiatives include the EVOLVE H2020 project (2019–2021) for HPC and big data integration.

Labs/Teams: Active in FORTH-ICS and collaborations with industry on storage and cloud-HPC convergence.