Presenter

Giorgis Georgakoudis is a Computer Scientist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). His research interests are on novel programming models and automated performance optimization methods, developing new compiler optimizations and AI-driven auto-tuning techniques.

Giorgis obtained his Dipl. Eng. (2007), Master's (2010), and PhD degrees (2017) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Eng. of University of Thessaly, Greece. From 2013 to 2018, he was also affiliated with Queen's University Belfast, UK working as a researcher. Giorgis was a Postdoctoral Researcher at LLNL from November 2018 until January 2020, promoted to a Computer Scientist in February 2020 until present. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE IT Professional journal and a member of the Review Board of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing (TPDC) journal. He is also a member of ACM and IEEE societies and frequently provides professional service.