Sotirios Ziavras
Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
USA
Biography
Dr. Sotirios Ziavras is the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and the Dean of the Graduate Faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in Computer Science, as well as the Director of CAPPL (Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing Laboratory). He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece and the D.Sc. in Computer Science from George Washington University (GWU). He was with the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1988 to 1989. He was a visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia in Spring 1990. He joined NJIT in Fall 1990 as an Assistant Professor. He has received several honors such as an award from the Hellenic Republic for his academic performance at NTUA, an industry-funded Distinguished assistantship at GWU, the NJIT Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Education, and the Richard E. Merwin fellowship at GWU. He has published more than 170 papers, and did early work on chip multiprocessors embedded in FPGAs for data-intensive computing and power-grid applications. His main research interests are multicore processors, reconfigurable computing, hardware accelerators, parallel processing, wireless sensor networks and embedded computing.
Research Interest
His main research interests are multicore processors, reconfigurable computing, hardware accelerators, parallel processing, wireless sensor networks and embedded computing