Georgi Gaydadjiev

Georgi Gaydadjiev is a Professor in Innovative Computer Architecture at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Science and Engineering. Previously, he held roles including Chair Professor at TU Delft and Chalmers University of Technology, and served as VP of Dataflow Software Engineering at Maxeler Technologies. He holds a PhD from TU Delft and has over 35 years of industry and academic experience, focusing on reconfigurable computing, high-performance systems, and energy-efficient architectures. His research spans embedded systems, fault tolerance, and scalable architectures.

• Education: MSc Electrical Engineering (TU Delft), PhD (TU Delft), studies at Voenmeh (Baltic State Technical University).

Research interests include reconfigurable computing, advanced architectures, parallel systems, and HPC. He leads projects funded by EU, Google, and Swedish Research Councils, addressing exascale computing and customized hardware. His work has been recognized with awards like the CES Design Showcase (1999) and best paper awards at ICS'10 and WiSTP'07. He advises PhD students and oversees labs like Maxeler IoT-Labs BV, focusing on deploying dataflow technology beyond data centers.