Christos Kozyrakis

Christos Kozyrakis is the Leonard Bosack and Sandy K Lerner Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a computer architecture researcher at NVIDIA.  Kozyrakis received a BS degree from the University of Crete (Greece) and a PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley (USA), both in Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He has received the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award, the NSF Career Award, the ISCA Influential Paper Award, the ASPLOS Influential Paper Award, the HPCA Test of Time Award, the SoCC Test of Time Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, the Noyce Family Faculty Scholarship, and the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Faculty Scholarship, and faculty awards by IBM, Google, and Microsoft.

Dr. Kozyrakis specializes in computer architecture and system software design. At Berkeley, he designed the IRAM chip, an early system that combined vector processing with high-bandwidth embedded DRAM technology. At Stanford, he led the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project that developed hardware and software mechanisms for programming with transactional memory. In the past decade, he focused on technologies that improves the performance, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness for cloud computing systems. His research pioneered the use of machine learning for cloud management, introduced operating systems for low-latency computing, and proposed hardware accelerators for emerging AI workloads. He is currently focusing on improving AI efficiency across the system stack.