Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University
Dr. Georgios Keramidas received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He teaches the undergraduate. courses: Computer Architecture, Digital Design, Advanced Computer Architectures, and Microprocessors and the postgraduate course: Edge Computing. Dr Keramidas’ main research interests are in the areas of low-power processor/memory design, multicore systems, VLIW/multi-threaded architectures, network and graphic processors, reconfigurable systems, power modelling methodologies, FPGA prototyping, and compiler optimizations techniques. He has published more than 85 papers, two books, three book chapters and he also holds 14 US and Chinese patents (3 more patents are under evaluation). His work received more than 1235 citations (h-index: 17, i10-index: 26) and a best-paper award. During the last years, Dr Keramidas has participated in more than 10 collaborative research projects funded by European Commission and in five national projects either as project coordinator, technical coordinator, work packager leader, or as senior researcher. Currently, he is the person-in-charge of an industrial, funded project from Applied Materials S.A. and he is leading a team consisting of 3 PhD and 4 bachelor students. He is also the technical coordinator of an industry-academia technology transfer project (SMART4ALL) funded by the European Commission. Before joining the Aristotle University, Dr. Keramidas spent almost 11 years in industry in the position of Chief Scientific Officer of Think Silicon S.A. working in embedded, ultra-low power multithreaded Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). He was also responsible for running the funded projects of the company and for expanding the patent portfolio of the company. Dr. Keramidas continues to work in the company as technology consultant. Prof. Keramidas has served as Program Chair in 3 international conferences (FPL’21, ISVLSI’21, ARC 2018) and as a TPC member in many conferences (DATE, FPL, ISVLSI, SAMOS, CITS, CCCI, ISQED). He serves as evaluator and as innovation expert in European Commission (CT-EX2013D154568). Dr. Keramidas is a regular reviewer in many journals/transactions and he received an “Outstanding reviewer” award from the Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO) journal.
