About the Editors

Dr. Ioannis Papaefstathiou is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a co- founder of Exascale Performance Systems (EXAPSYS) which is a spin-off of Technical University of Crete, Synelixis Solutions SA and Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). From 2004-2018 he was a Professor at ECE School at Technical University of Crete and a Manager at Synelixis Solutions SA. His main research interests are in the design and implementation methodologies for CPS with tightly coupled design parameters and highly constrained resources as well as in heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and the associated programming/development tools. He was granted a PhD in computer science at the University of Cambridge in 2001, an M. Sc. (Ranked 1st) from Harvard University in 1997 and a B. Sc. (Ranked 2nd) from the University of Crete in 1996. He has published more than 100 papers in IEEE and ACM-sponsored journals and conferences, he has been the guest editor an IEEE Micro issues and he is a member of the Program Committee of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He is participating / has participated in numerous European R&D Programmes(e.g. OSMOSIS, FASTCUDA, HEAP, FASTER, COSSIM, ECOSCALE, EXTRA, EuroEXA); in total he has been Principal Investigator in 12 competitively funded research projects in Europe (in 7 of them he was the technical coordinator of the whole project), in the last 7 years, where his cumulative budget share exceeds €5 million.