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Keynote Speakers

Constantinos (Costis) DASKALAKIS

Avanessians Professor of Computer Science at MIT

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Constantinos (Costis) DASKALAKIS

Constantinos (Costis) Daskalakis is the Avanessians Professor of Computer Science at MIT. He works on Algorithms, Machine Learning, Game Theory, and Statistics. He has resolved long-standing open problems about the computational complexity of Nash equilibrium, and the mathematical structure and computational complexity of auctions. His current work focuses on multi-agent learning, high-dimensional statistics, and causal inference. He has been honored with several top honors in his fields of research including the Nevanlinna Prize which is awarded, together with the Fields medal, by the International Mathematical Union for outstanding contributions to mathematical aspects of information sciences. Other prestigious honors include the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Kalai Prize from the Game Theory Society, the Simons Foundation Investigator Award, and the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He is an ACM fellow, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Patras and an honorary professorship from the University of Piraeus, and was awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of the Redeemer by the Greek Presidency. He chaired the AI Strategy Committee for Greece for the Greek PM.

Dionysios DIAMANTOPOULOS

Staff Research Scientist
Infrastructure AIOPS – Hybrid Cloud Research
IBM Research Europe

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Dionysios DIAMANTOPOULOS, PhD

Dionysios Diamantopoulos is a Staff Research Scientist at the Hybrid Cloud Research department of IBM Research Europe. His research interests include computational storage systems, transprecision & near-memory computing, and energy-efficient heterogeneous systems for hybrid cloud and AI. Over the years, he has had the opportunity to work on multiple cutting-edge IBM and EU projects, including dynamic-precision accelerators and co-processors for the POWER architecture, near-memory hardware accelerators for weather modeling and DNA sequencing/alignment, accelerators for the fintech industry in the cloud, and cache-coherent accelerators for neural networks. He was the leader of the internal IBM challenge for domain-specific acceleration on the cloud with disaggregated FPGAs. Currently, he is leading efforts to develop AI/ML techniques in IBM FlashSystems for enhanced cybersecurity, as well as content-aware storage innovations for next-gen AI agentic systems. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ECE/NTUA, Greece, and a D.Eng. from CEID/Patras University, Greece. His research is disseminated in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. He has also filed over ten patents and received one plateau invention award. He has served as a researcher on eight projects from the EU and three from ESA, and as a TPC member and reviewer in numerous international conferences and journals. He is a member of HiPEAC, IEEE, IEEE CAS, OpenPOWER, and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Romano HOOFMAN

Strategic Development Director at imec

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Romano HOOFMAN

Romano Hoofman is Strategic Development Director at imec since 2016. He is currently responsible for the innovation programs of the IC-Link sector and for the coordination of both the EUROPRACTICE Service and the EU Chips Design Platform. He started his career in Industry, where he worked as a Principal Scientist at Philips Research and later on NXP Semiconductors. He covered many different R&D topics, ranging from CMOS integration, advanced packaging, thin film batteries, photovoltaics and (bio)sensors. Romano received his PhD from the Technical University of Delft in 2000, where he investigated charge transport in semi-conducting polymers. He has authored more than 30 publications and holds more than 10 patents in various research areas.

Invited Speakers

Christoforos KACHRIS

 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica

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Christoforos KACHRIS

Christoforos Kachris is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of West Attica since November 2023. He is the co-author of more than 95 peer reviewed publications in the domain of reconfigurable computing and hardware accelerations and his work has been cited in more than 2900 papers.

From 2018 till October 2023, he was the co-founder and Managing director of the InAccel startup company and he was leading the efforts for easy and efficient FPGA deployment in the cloud. InAccel attracted 500k Euro seed funding Marathon, through the EquiFund framework and was collaborating with all the main vendors of FPGAs. InAccel received several awards for their innovative solutions like the Venture Impact Award in 2021 and the DeepBlue Cup International A.I. Science and Innovation Competition in 2019. In 2023 InAccel had a successful exit.

Before founding InAccel (2015-2018), Christoforos Kachris was the main initiator and Technical Project Manager at the NTUA/ICCS (Greece) of the VINEYARD (Versatile Integrated Accelerator-based Heterogeneous Data Centres), a EC-funded research project with a 6.3 Millins Euro Budget and 11 partners.

Christoforos Kachris holds a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007) and a M.Sc. and Diploma from Technical University in Crete (2001, 2003). His Ph.D. was focused on Reconfigurable FPGA-based Network Processing platforms and during his Ph.D. Christoforos worked as an intern in Xilinx Research Labs in San Jose (Silicon Valley) where he was granted a US patent on the Configurable Transactional Memories in FPGAs.

Sponsors

Emerging Tech Conference Edge Intelligence is organized within the framework of the HCCC project, supported by Chips JU and its members, and is co-funded by European Union and the Greek Government via the “Competitiveness” Programme.