Former CSE Student Honored with the 2008 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

Chrysostomos A. Nicopoulos (PhD 2007) received the 2008 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the area of "New directions in logic and system design" by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA). This award is one of the most prestigious awards for Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

For the 2007/08 academic year, Chrys was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. While at EPFL, Chrys was involved in various research projects investigating 3D System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures, multicore computer architectures, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Field Programmable Counter Arrays (FPCA), and analytical models of communication in Multi-Processor SoCs (MPSoC).

He has recently joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus as a tenure-track lecturer.

His dissertation, which will be published by Springer, is titled, "Network-on-Chip Architectures:  A Holistic Design Exploration."

Over the last few years, Chrys has been actively involved in the research of packet-based Networks-on-Chip (NoC). He is particularly interested in the "golden" optimization quintet of AREA, POWER, PERFORMANCE, RELIABILITY, and PROCESS VARIATION tolerance. Within this realm, he is currently exploring NoC router architectures for both Chip Multi-Processors (CMP) and heterogeneous MPSoCs, and is investigating emerging challenges in the field of communication-centric many-core computer architectures.

His advisor was Professor Vijaykrishnan Narayanan.