Christos Kozyrakis
Christos Kozyrakis | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) |
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| Known for | Computer architecture, Transactional memory, Computer systems |
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| Fields | Engineering, Computer Science |
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| Thesis | Scalable Vector Media-processors for Embedded Systems (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Patterson |
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.
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.