Haris Volos

Haris Volos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Cyprus. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012), following B.E.E. degrees from the National Technical University of Athens (2005). Before academia, he worked at Hewlett Packard Labs (2013–2018) and Google (2018–2019). His research focuses on Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, and Data Storage and Processing, with recent work on energy-efficient CPU architectures, disaggregated memory systems, and persistent memory frameworks.

Education:

• B.E.E. (2005), National Technical University of Athens
• M.Sc. (2007), University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D. (2012), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Key Research Themes:

• Energy-efficient CPU core idle-state architectures
• Disaggregated memory protection and replication
• Persistent memory systems and transactional memory
• Big data processing over hybrid memory tiers

Recent Contributions: His work includes frameworks like Panthera for holistic memory management and AgileWatts for energy-proportional servers. He also pioneered systems like HOPS (Hands-off Persistence System) for persistent memory.

Labs/Teams: Active in the university's informatics research clusters, focusing on hardware-software co-design and scalable data systems.