Dimitrios  S.  Nikolopoulos  is  an  Associate  Professor  of  Computer  Science  at  the 
University  of  Crete  and  an  Affiliated  Faculty  Member  of  the  Institute  of  Computer 
Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH-ICS). Prior 
to  joining  the  University  of  Crete  and  FORTH-ICS,  Dimitrios  held  tenure-track  and 
tenured faculty positions at the College of William and Mary and Virginia Tech.  His 
research  interests  focus  on  the  hardware-software  interface  of  parallel  architectures 
and  include  runtime  systems,  operating  systems,  system-level  virtualization,  energy-
efficient  parallel  execution  and  large-scale  parallel  data  processing.  Dimitrios  is  a 
recipient  of  an  NSF  CAREER  Award,  a  DOE  Early  Career  Principal  Investigator 
Award,  an  IBM  Faculty  Award,  a  Marie  Curie  Fellowship,  and  six  best  conference 
paper  awards,  including  the  best  paper  awards  of  PPoPP,  SC,  and  IPDPS.  He  has 
published over 100 papers in top-tier venues for experimental parallel computing and 
has led or co-led some 20 research projects in the same area. Dimitrios holds a Ph.D. 
in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras.