Dr Vasilios Kelefouras
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Dr Vasilios Kelefouras

Lecturer in Computer Science

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Biography

Biography

Dr Vasilios Kelefouras joined the Department of Computing at the University of Plymouth in Sept. 2018. His research expertise lies in the field of High Performance Computing, code optimization, loop transformations, optimizing compilers, task scheduling and embedded systems.

He received his Master diploma “Integrated Software and Hardware Systems” of Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of University of Patras in 2008; he graduated with distinction and he earned the 1st Fellowship award. In 2013, he received his PhD from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Patras; he composed and won the Greek PhD Research Scholarship. 

From September 2013 until December 2016 he had been working as a postdoctoral researcher at VLSI lab at Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Additionally, from October 2015 until December 2016, he had been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Embedded System Design and Application Lab of Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece. From Jan. 2017 until Dec. 2017 he was a Research Fellow at Distributed Systems and Services Research Group, School of Computing, University of Leeds (UK). Last, from Dec. 2017 until Sept. 2018 he had been working as a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

Currently, I am the module leader of the following modules

  • Parallel Computing (COMP3001)
  • Computer Systems (COMP1001)
Admin Roles
  • Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
  • Academic Liaison Person for Partner Colleges
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) committee member
Research

Research

Research interests

My research area lies in the field of High Performance Computing, code optimization, loop transformations, task scheduling and embedded systems.

In the last 13 years I have carried out high-quality research in several European and Greek research projects and published more than 40 research papers in high quality journals and conferences, such as IEEE/ACM transactions journal and HiPEAC conference. 

I have gained strong R&D experience in optimising SoftWare (SW) applications, in terms of execution time, energy consumption and memory size, in a wide range of different HardWare (HW) platforms, i.e., single/multi-core CPUs, microcontrollers, hard/soft processors on FPGAs, GPGPUs, clusters; moreover, I have some experience in developing optimized HW-SW co-design solutions and high throughput/low area HW solutions on FPGAs.

Other research

  • Won the HiPEAC technology transfer award https://www.hipeac.net/awards/#/tech-transfer/2022/ for the proposal 'DSE methodology for Tensor Train Decomposition in NEOX AI-SDK'. The technology has been transferred to Think Silicon, a provider of ultra-low-power graphics processing units and Machine Learning accelerators.

  • Won the Best Paper Award at SAMOS XXII Conference: 22nd International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation. The paper is entitled “A Design Space Exploration Methodology for Enabling Tensor Train Decomposition in Edge Devices”


Research degrees awarded to supervised students

PhD Projects:

  • Improving the performance of HiRep Lattice Simulations software by exploiting the CPU/GPU hardware architecture details and algorithm characteristics (main supervisor)
  • Accelerating Machine Learning Algorithms on Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Clusters (co-supervisor)
  • Optimising Information Storage for Network Performance Analysis (co-supervisor)

Grants & contracts

Co-I in ‘Development of GIB optimisation for investigating local scour around complex structure for marine restoration and protection.’. This research grant is funded by the University RnD solutions fund. Partners are Engys LTD and ARC Marine companies. April 2023 - Dec. 2023.


Publications

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Dimitrios K, Kelefouras V, PANDELIS K & Iosif M (2022) 'Anatomy of Deep Learning Image Classification and Object Detection on Commercial Edge Devices: A Case Study on Face Mask Detection' IEEE Access 10, 109167-109186 , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V & Djemame K (2022) 'Workflow Simulation and Multi-Threading Aware Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier) , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V, Djemame K, Keramidas G & Voros N (2022) 'A methodology for efficient tile size selection for affine loop kernels' International Journal of Parallel Programming , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V & Keramidas G (2022) 'Design and Implementation of 2D Convolution on x86/x64 Processors' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , DOI Open access
Mporas I, Perikos I, Kelefouras V & Paraskevas M (2020) 'Illegal Logging Detection Based on Acoustic Surveillance of Forest' Applied Sciences 10, (20) 7379-7379 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V & Djemame K (2019) 'A methodology correlating code optimizations with data memory accesses, execution time and energy consumption' Journal of Supercomputing , DOI Open access
Vasilios K, Georgios K & Nikolaos V (2018) 'Combining Software Cache Partitioning and Loop Tiling for Effective Shared Cache Management' ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 17, (3) 1-25 , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V (2017) 'A methodology pruning the search space of six compiler transformations by addressing them together as one problem and by exploiting the hardware architecture details' Computing 99, (9) 865-888 , DOI Open access
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2016) 'Array Size Computation under Uniform Overlapping and Irregular Accesses' ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 21, (2) 1-35 , DOI
Kelefouras V, Kritikakou A, Mporas I & Kolonias V (2016) 'A high-performance matrix–matrix multiplication methodology for CPU and GPU architectures' The Journal of Supercomputing 72, (3) 804-844 , DOI
Michail HE, Athanasiou GS, Kelefouras VI, Theodoridis G, Stouraitis T & Goutis CE (2015) 'Area-Throughput Trade-Offs for SHA-1 and SHA-256 Hash Functions’ Pipelined Designs' Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers 25, (04) 1650032-1650032 , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V, Kritikakou A & Goutis C (2015) 'A methodology for speeding up loop kernels by exploiting the software information and the memory architecture' Computer Languages, Systems & Structures 41, 21-41 , DOI
Kelefouras V, Kritikakou A, Papadima E & Goutis C (2015) 'A methodology for speeding up matrix vector multiplication for single/multi-core architectures' The Journal of Supercomputing 71, (7) 2644-2667 , DOI
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2014) 'A scalable and near-optimal representation of access schemes for memory management' ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 11, (1) 1-25 , DOI
Kelefouras V, Kritikakou A & Goutis C (2014) 'A Matrix–Matrix Multiplication methodology for single/multi-core architectures using SIMD' The Journal of Supercomputing 68, (3) 1418-1440 , DOI
Kelefouras V, Kritikakou A & Goutis C (2013) 'A methodology for speeding up edge and line detection algorithms focusing on memory architecture utilization' The Journal of Supercomputing 68, (1) 459-487 , DOI
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2013) 'Near-optimal and scalable intrasignal in-place optimization for non-overlapping and irregular access schemes' ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 19, (1) 1-30 , DOI
Kelefouras VI, Kritikakou AS, Siourounis K & Goutis CE (2013) 'A Methodology for Speeding up MVM for Regular, Toeplitz and Bisymmetric Toeplitz Matrices' Journal of Signal Processing Systems 77, (3) 241-255 , DOI
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Athanasiou GS, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2013) 'Near-Optimal Microprocessor and Accelerators Codesign with Latency and Throughput Constraints' ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 10, (2) 1-25 , DOI
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2013) 'A systematic approach to classify design-time global scheduling techniques' ACM Computing Surveys 45, (2) 1-30 , DOI
Michail HE, Athanasiou GS, Kelefouras V, Theodoridis G & Goutis CE (2012) 'On the exploitation of a high-throughput SHA-256 FPGA design for HMAC' ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems 5, (1) 1-28 , DOI
Kelefouras VI, Athanasiou GS, Alachiotis N, Michail HE, Kritikakou AS & Goutis CE (2011) 'A Methodology for Speeding Up Fast Fourier Transform Focusing on Memory Architecture Utilization' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 59, (12) 6217-6226 , DOI
Alachiotis N, Kelefouras VI, Athanasiou GS, Michail HE, Kritikakou AS & Goutis CE (2010) 'A data locality methodology for matrix–matrix multiplication algorithm' The Journal of Supercomputing 59, (2) 830-851 , DOI
Chapters
Kelefouras V, Djemame K, Keramidas G & Voros N (2022) 'An Analytical Model for Loop Tiling Transformation' Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer International Publishing 95-107 , DOI
Djemame K, Kavanagh R, Kelefouras V, Aguilà A, Ejarque J, Badia R, Pérez DG, Pezuela C, Deprez J-C & Guedria L (2018) 'Towards an Energy-Aware Framework for Application Development and Execution in Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures' Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers Springer
Conference Papers
Kokhazadeh M, Keramidas G, Kelefouras V & Stamoulis I (2022) 'A Design Space Exploration Methodology for Enabling Tensor Train Decomposition in Edge Devices' International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS) , DOI Open access
Dorr T, Schade F, Masing L, Becker J, Keramidas G, Antonopoulos CP, Mavropoulos M, Kelefouras V & Voros N (2022) 'Safety by Construction: Pattern-Based Application of Safety Mechanisms in XANDAR' 2022 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 7-/-0/20227-/-0/2022IEEE , DOI
Siddiqui F, Khan R, Sezer S, McLaughlin K, Masing L, Dorr T, Schade F, Becker J, Ahlbrecht A & Zaeske W (2022) 'XANDAR: A holistic Cybersecurity Engineering Process for Safety-critical and Cyber-physical Systems' 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring) 6-/-0/20226-/-0/2022IEEE , DOI Open access
Djemame K, Datsev D & Kelefouras V (2022) 'Evaluation of language runtimes in open-source serverless platforms' 12th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science 4-/-0/20224-/-0/2022Open access
Masing L, Dorr T, Schade F, Becker J, Keramidas G, Antonopoulos CP, Mavropoulos M, Tiganourias E, Kelefouras V & Antonopoulos K (2022) 'XANDAR: Exploiting the X-by-Construction Paradigm in Model-based Development of Safety-critical Systems' 2022 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE) 3-/-0/20223-/-0/2022IEEE , DOI Open access
Masing L, Doerr T, Schade F, Becker J, Keramidas G, Antonopoulos CP, Mavropoulos M, Tiganourias E, Kelefouras V & Antonopoulos K (2022) 'XANDAR: Exploiting the X-by-Construction Paradigm in Model-based Development of Safety-critical Systems' 814-818 Open access
Becker J, Masing L, Dorr T, Schade F, Keramidas G, Antonopoulos CP, Mavropoulos M, Tiganourias E, Kelefouras V & Antonopoulos K (2021) 'XANDAR: X-by-Construction Design framework for Engineering Autonomous & Distributed Real-time Embedded Software Systems' 2021 31st International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 8-/-0/20219-/-0/2021IEEE , DOI
Kelefouras V (2021) 'An analytical model for loop tiling transformation' International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation , DOI Open access
Tiganourias E, Mavropoulos M, Keramidas G, Kelefouras V, Antonopoulos CP & Voros N (2021) 'A Hierarchical Profiler of Intermediate Representation Code based on LLVM' 2021 10th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) 6-/-0/20216-/-0/2021IEEE , DOI Open access
Al-Saadi M, Khan A, Kelefouras V, Walker DJ & Al-Saadi B (2021) 'Unsupervised Machine Learning-Based Elephant and Mice Flow Identification' Springer International Publishing 357-370 , DOI
Kelefouras V & Djemame K (2018) 'Workflow Simulation Aware and Multi-Threading Effective Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing' 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) Bengaluru, India 2-/-1/20182-/-1/2018, DOI Open access
Kelefouras V & Djemame K (2018) 'A methodology for efficient code optimizations and memory management' ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2018 (CF '18) Ischia, Italy , DOI Open access
Kelefouras V, Keramidas G & Voros N (2017) 'Cache partitioning + loop tiling: A methodology for effective shared cache management”' IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI Bochum, Germany 7-/-0/20177-/-0/2017, DOI Open access
Emertlis A, Kelefouras V, Theodoridis G, Nanou M, Politi C, Georgoulakis K & Glentis O (2015) 'FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF A MIMO DFE IN 40 GB/S DQPSK OPTICAL LINKS' EUSIPCO NICE, FRANCE
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2015) 'Near-optimal & Scalable Representation of Access Schemes for Memory Management' European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Emeretlis A, Kelefouras V, Theodoridis G & Glentis O (2014) 'EFFICIENT FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS OF VOLTERRA DFES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS' IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS) 0-/-1/20140-/-1/2015
Kritikakou A, Catthoor F, Athanasiou GS, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2012) 'A template-based methodology for efficient microprocessor and FPGA accelerator co-design' 2012 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS XII) 7-/-0/20127-/-0/2012IEEE , DOI
Michail H, Kelefouras V, Panagianopoulou D, Gregoriades A, Kotsiolis A & Goutis C (2010) 'HW/SW co-Design Integrating High – Speed Authentication Module for IPSec/IPv6' Oral Presentation in the fifth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2010) Athens/Glyfada Greece
Michail H, Apostolopoulou D, Anastasiou L, Porpodas V, Athanasiou G, Kelefouras V & Goutis C (2009) 'Novel Hardware Implementation of the Cipher Message Authentication Code (CMAC)' Oral Presentation in 1st Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET '08) Patras Greece
Personal

Personal

Reports & invited lectures

  • Visiting Lecturer in “Compilers for Embedded Systems” module of the master program «Integrated Software and Hardware Systems», at the department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras (winter semester 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2021-2022)
  • Invited Speaker to the 1st European Compiler Seminar organized by the Customized Parallel Computing group of Tampere University (http://tuni.fi/cpc )– Spring 2022

Other academic activities

Program Committee Member

  • Computing Frontiers (CF) Conference (https://www.computingfrontiers.org/2023/ )