Georgios Karakonstantis

Dr. Georgios Karakonstantis is a Visiting Scholar at Queen's University Belfast's School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He specializes in energy-efficient and dependable systems for embedded devices and data centers, focusing on approximate computing, FPGA/GPU accelerators, and cross-layer design techniques. His work addresses challenges in Edge and Cloud environments through innovations in hardware-software co-design and error resilience.

Research Interests:

• Energy-efficient processors and memories
• Error-resilient computing architectures
• Approximate computing for multimedia/ML applications
• Accelerators in Cloud/Edge ecosystems
• Machine learning for hardware modeling

Awards:

• Best Paper Award at IEEE DATE 2020
• Altera Innovate Design Contest Winner Prize
• Nominated for IEEE MICRO 2020 Best Paper

Advising: Supervised PhD students in areas such as variation-aware processors (Ioannis Tsiokanos), energy-efficient memories (Konstantinos Tovletoglou), and heterogeneous architectures (Umar Ibrahim Minhas). Active in grants including UniServer and EU-funded projects on Edge computing.