Christos Kozyrakis

Christos (Christoforos) Kozyrakis (Greek: Χρίστος (Χριστόφορος) Κοζυράκης; born 1974) is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST). His current research interests are on resource efficient cloud computing, energy efficient compute and memory systems, and architectural support for security. Kozyrakis was the 2015 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to transactional memory systems.

Christos Kozyrakis
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Heraklion, Greece
Nationality
Known forComputer architecture, Transactional memory, Computer systems
Awards
  • Maurice Wilkes Award (2015)
  • IEEE Fellow (2015)
  • ACM Fellow (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering, Computer Science
Institutions
  • Stanford University
  • UC Berkeley
  • University of Crete
ThesisScalable Vector Media-processors for Embedded Systems (2002)
Doctoral advisorDavid Patterson

Kozyrakis holds a Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley (advised by David A. Patterson) and a B.Sc. from University of Crete. He is an IEEE fellow and an ACM fellow.

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