Prof. Georgios Theodoropoulos

Prof. Georgios Theodoropoulos

Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SUSTech, Shenzhen, China.

Research field: 

Computer Systems and Big Data Computing: Parallel and Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing Systems, Data Intensive Computing, Distributed Virtual Environments, e-Infrastructures, Workload-optimised Systems

Brief Introduction:

Georgios Theodoropoulos is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SUSTech, Shenzhen, China. He joined SUSTech from Durham University in the UK, where he was the Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Research Computing and held a Chair in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Scientist with the IBM Research where he played a strategic role in the establishment of IBM’s Exascale Systems research roadmap for Europe at the company’s Smart City Technology Center in Dublin. He has held a honorary Chair at the Trinity College Dublin and senior posts at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the University of Birmingham, UK. As a Director of one of the UK’s National e-Science Centres, he made strategic contributions to UK’s e-infrastructures programmes for physical and social sciences and humanities. He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in the UK, where he was mentored by Stephen Furber, the principal designer of the ARM processor that powers much of the world’s mobile computing and embedded systems today.

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