Panagiotis Hadjidoukas

Panagiotis Hadjidoukas is an Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Computing at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, within the School of Engineering. His work focuses on high-performance computing systems and parallel programming models.

His research spans parallel and distributed computing, runtime support for parallel programming models, and automation of AI/ML workloads. Key contributions include developing the torc runtime system for task parallelism and pioneering work in extreme-scale scientific simulations. His interests bridge theoretical computer science with practical applications in scientific computing and AI acceleration.

Notable achievements include the ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winner (2013) for 11 PFLOP/s cloud cavitation simulations and Finalist (2015) for in-silico lab-on-a-chip microfluidics. His software tools (torc_lite, torcpy) enable efficient parallelism across diverse architectures.

• Doctor of Philosophy (2003), University of Patras
• Master of Science (2001), University of Patras
• Diploma in Computer Engineering (1998), University of Patras

As Head of the Laboratory for Computing, he leads infrastructure development while maintaining active research collaborations with IBM Research and ETH Zurich. His teaching portfolio includes graduate courses on high-performance computing for data sciences and parallel processing principles.