Vasileios Karakostas

Vasileios Karakostas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a member of the Computer Architecture Lab and focuses on computer architecture, memory systems, and resource management. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Technical University of Athens' Computing Systems Lab. He holds a PhD in Computer Architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2016)
• M.Sc. in Computer Architecture, Networks, and Systems, UPC (2012)
• B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA (2009)

Research Interests:

• Memory systems (virtual memory, NVM)
• Hardware/OS interaction
• Resource management in data centers
• Parallel systems and serverless computing
• RISC-V architectures and cloud infrastructure

Projects: Active in Horizon Europe projects Vitamin-V, Neuropuls, and REBECCA. Previously contributed to DAPHNE and ACTiCLOUD (EU H2020).

Awards:

• 2024: Distinguished Artifact Award (ASPLOS)
• 2011: Best Paper Award (ICPE)
• Selected for IEEE Micro's Top Picks (2015, 2016)

Teaching: Courses include Logic Design, Parallel Systems, and Large-scale Computing Systems at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Labs/Teams: Leads research in the Computer Architecture Lab, collaborating on resilient architectures and cloud computing innovations.