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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, 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
I teach the following modules
- Parallel Computing (COMP3001)
- Computer Systems (COMP1001)
- Embedded Systems and the Internet of Things (COMP2004)
In the past I have also taught :
- Embedded Programming and the Internet of Things (SOFT261)
- Computer Systems and Networks (NET112)
- Computer Architecture and Low Level Programming (SEC204)
- Computational Problem Solving and Computer Systems (ISAD515)
Research
Research
Research interests
My research area lies in the field of High Performance Computing, code optimization, optimizing compilers, 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 and HiPEAC.
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.
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
JournalsJ22. V.I. Kelefouras, Karim Djemame, 'Workflow Simulation and Multi-Threading Aware Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing', Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, 2022
J21. V.I. Kelefouras, Keramidas Georgios, ‘Design and Implementation of 2D Convolution on x86/x64 Processors’, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022.
J20. V.I. Kelefouras, Karim Djemame, Keramidas Georgios, Voros Nikolaos, ‘A methodology for efficient tile size selection for affine loop kernels’, International Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer, 2022.
J19. Mporas I, Perikos I, Kelefouras V & Paraskevas M, 'Illegal Logging Detection Based on Acoustic Surveillance of Forest' Applied Sciences 10, 2020, (20) 7379-7379
J18. Vasilios Kelefouras, Karim Djemame, "A methodology correlating code optimizations with data memory accesses, execution time and energy consumption", accepted for publication in journal of Supercomputing (Springer) (IF: 1.532)
J17. V.I. Kelefouras, Keramidas Georgios, Voros Nikolaos, "Combining software cache partitioning and loop tiling for effective shared cache management", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) (IF: 1.367)
J16. V.I. Kelefouras, “A methodology pruning the search space of six compiler transformations by addressing them together as one problem and by exploiting the hardware architecture details", Journal of Computing, Springer (IF: 0.872)
J15. V.I. Kelefouras, A. Kritikakou, I. Mporas and V. Kolonias, “A high performance Matrix-Matrix Multiplication methodology for CPU and GPU architectures”, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (IF: 1.088)
J14. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, “Array Size Computation under Uniform Overlapping & Irregular Accesses” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (IF: 0.52)
J13. V.I. Kelefouras, Elissavet Papadima, A. S. Kritikakou and C.E. Goutis, «A Matrix Vector Multiplication Methodology for single/multi-core architectures», Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (IF: 1.088)
J12. V.I. Kelefouras, A.Kritikakou and C. Goutis, « A methodology of speeding up loop kernels by exploiting the software information and the memory architecture», Journal of Computer Languages, Systems & Structures (COMLAN), Elsevier, 2015 (IF: 0.458)
J11. H.E. Michail, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras, G. Theodoridis, T. Stouraitis, C.E. Goutis, “Area-Throughput trade-offs for SHA-1 and SHA-256 Hash Functions' Pipelined Designs” Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (IF: 0.25)
J10. V.I. Kelefouras, A. Kritikakou and C. Goutis «A Matrix Matrix Multiplication Methodology for Single/Multi-core architectures using SIMD», Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 1418-1440, Jan., 2014 (IF: 0.917)
J9. V.I. Kelefouras, A. Kritikakou and C. Goutis «A Methodology for Speeding Up Edge and Line Detection Algorithms focusing on Memory Architecture Utilization», Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 459-487, 2014, DOI:10.1007/s11227-013-1049-x, (IF: 0.917)
J8. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, «A scalable and near-optimal representation of access schemes for memory management», ACM Transactions on Architecture and code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 11, No.1, Feb., 2014 (IF: 0.824)
J7. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, «Near-optimal & Scalable Intra-signal In-place for Non-overlapping & Irregular Access Schemes», ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol.19, no. 1, Dec., 2013, DOI:10.1145/2534383 (IF: 0.685)
J6. V.I. Kelefouras, A.Kritikakou, Konstantinos Siourounis and C. Goutis, “A methodology for speeding up MVM for Regular, Toeplitz and Bisymmetric Toeplitz Matrices”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 1-15 , 2013, DOI:10.1007/s11265-013-0812-9 (IF: 0.551)
J5. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, “Near-optimal Microprocessor & Accelerators Co-Design with Latency & Throughput Constraints”, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), May, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2013, DOI:10.1145/2459316.2459317 (IF: 0.824)
J4. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, “A systematic approach to classify design-time global scheduling techniques”, Journal of ACM Computed Surveys, Vol. 45, No. 2, Feb. 2013, DOI: 10.1145/2431211.2431213 (IF: 9.169)
J3. N. Alachiotis, V.I. Kelefouras, G. Athanasiou, H. Michail, A. Kritikakou and C. Goutis, “A Data Locality Methodology for Matrix-Matrix Multiplication Algorithm”, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2012, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 830--851, DOI: 10.1007/s11227-010-0474-3 (IF:0.917)
J2. H.E. Michail, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras, G. Theodoridis, C.E. Goutis, “On the exploitation of a high-throughput SHA-256 FPGA design for HMAC”, accepted for publishing in journal of ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), vol. 5, Iss. 1, March 2012.
J1. V.I. Kelefouras, G.S. Athanasiou, N. Alachiotis, H. E. Michail, A. S. Kritikakou and C.E. Goutis, “A Methodology for Speeding Up Fast Fourier Transform Focusing on Memory Architecture Utilization”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011, Vol.59, No 12, pp.6217-6226, DOI:10.1109/TSP.2011.2168525 (IF:2.829)
Articles
(2022) 'Workflow Simulation and Multi-Threading Aware Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier) , DOI Open access
(2022) 'A methodology for efficient tile size selection for
affine loop kernels' International Journal of Parallel Programming , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Design and Implementation of 2D Convolution on x86/x64 Processors' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Illegal Logging Detection Based on Acoustic Surveillance of Forest' Applied Sciences 10, (20) 7379-7379 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2019) 'A methodology correlating code optimizations with data memory accesses, execution time and energy consumption' Journal of Supercomputing , DOI Open access
(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
(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
(2016) 'Array Size Computation under Uniform Overlapping and Irregular Accesses' ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 21, (2) 1-35 , DOI
(2016) 'A high-performance matrix–matrix multiplication methodology for CPU and GPU architectures' The Journal of Supercomputing 72, (3) 804-844 , DOI
(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
(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
(2015) 'A methodology for speeding up matrix vector multiplication for single/multi-core architectures' The Journal of Supercomputing 71, (7) 2644-2667 , DOI
(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
(2014) 'A Matrix–Matrix Multiplication methodology for single/multi-core architectures using SIMD' The Journal of Supercomputing 68, (3) 1418-1440 , DOI
(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
(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
(2013) 'A Methodology for Speeding up MVM for Regular, Toeplitz and Bisymmetric Toeplitz Matrices' Journal of Signal Processing Systems 77, (3) 241-255 , DOI
(2013) 'Near-Optimal Microprocessor and Accelerators Codesign with Latency and Throughput Constraints' ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 10, (2) 1-25 , DOI
(2013) 'A systematic approach to classify design-time global scheduling techniques' ACM Computing Surveys 45, (2) 1-30 , DOI
(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
(2011) 'A Methodology for Speeding Up Fast Fourier Transform Focusing on Memory Architecture Utilization' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 59, (12) 6217-6226 , DOI
(2010) 'A data locality methodology for matrix–matrix multiplication algorithm' The Journal of Supercomputing 59, (2) 830-851 , DOI
Chapters
B1. K. Djemame, R. Kavanagh, V. Kelefouras, A. Aguila, J. Ejarque, R.M. Badia, D. Garcia Perez, C. Pezuela, J-C. Deprez, L. Guedria, R. De Landtsheer and Y. Georgiou, “Towards an Energy-aware Framework for application development and execution in Heterogeneous parallel architectures” In: Accelerators for energy efficient data centers, C. Kachris (Ed.), 2018, pp. 175-196.
B2. H.E. Michail, A.Gregoriades, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras and C.E. Goutis, “Authentication with RIPEMD-160 and other alternatives: A Hardware Design Perspective”, accepted for publishing in the book "Advanced Technologies", ISBN 978-953-7619-X-X, 2010
(2022) 'An Analytical Model for Loop Tiling Transformation' Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer International Publishing 95-107 , DOI
(2018) 'Towards an Energy-Aware Framework for Application Development and Execution in Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures' Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers Springer
Conference Papers
J21. V.I. Kelefouras, Keramidas Georgios, ‘Design and Implementation of 2D Convolution on x86/x64 Processors’, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022.
J20. V.I. Kelefouras, Karim Djemame, Keramidas Georgios, Voros Nikolaos, ‘A methodology for efficient tile size selection for affine loop kernels’, International Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer, 2022.
J19. Mporas I, Perikos I, Kelefouras V & Paraskevas M, 'Illegal Logging Detection Based on Acoustic Surveillance of Forest' Applied Sciences 10, 2020, (20) 7379-7379
J18. Vasilios Kelefouras, Karim Djemame, "A methodology correlating code optimizations with data memory accesses, execution time and energy consumption", accepted for publication in journal of Supercomputing (Springer) (IF: 1.532)
J17. V.I. Kelefouras, Keramidas Georgios, Voros Nikolaos, "Combining software cache partitioning and loop tiling for effective shared cache management", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) (IF: 1.367)
J16. V.I. Kelefouras, “A methodology pruning the search space of six compiler transformations by addressing them together as one problem and by exploiting the hardware architecture details", Journal of Computing, Springer (IF: 0.872)
J15. V.I. Kelefouras, A. Kritikakou, I. Mporas and V. Kolonias, “A high performance Matrix-Matrix Multiplication methodology for CPU and GPU architectures”, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (IF: 1.088)
J14. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, “Array Size Computation under Uniform Overlapping & Irregular Accesses” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (IF: 0.52)
J13. V.I. Kelefouras, Elissavet Papadima, A. S. Kritikakou and C.E. Goutis, «A Matrix Vector Multiplication Methodology for single/multi-core architectures», Journal of Supercomputing, Springer (IF: 1.088)
J12. V.I. Kelefouras, A.Kritikakou and C. Goutis, « A methodology of speeding up loop kernels by exploiting the software information and the memory architecture», Journal of Computer Languages, Systems & Structures (COMLAN), Elsevier, 2015 (IF: 0.458)
J11. H.E. Michail, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras, G. Theodoridis, T. Stouraitis, C.E. Goutis, “Area-Throughput trade-offs for SHA-1 and SHA-256 Hash Functions' Pipelined Designs” Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (IF: 0.25)
J10. V.I. Kelefouras, A. Kritikakou and C. Goutis «A Matrix Matrix Multiplication Methodology for Single/Multi-core architectures using SIMD», Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 1418-1440, Jan., 2014 (IF: 0.917)
J9. V.I. Kelefouras, A. Kritikakou and C. Goutis «A Methodology for Speeding Up Edge and Line Detection Algorithms focusing on Memory Architecture Utilization», Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 459-487, 2014, DOI:10.1007/s11227-013-1049-x, (IF: 0.917)
J8. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, «A scalable and near-optimal representation of access schemes for memory management», ACM Transactions on Architecture and code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 11, No.1, Feb., 2014 (IF: 0.824)
J7. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, «Near-optimal & Scalable Intra-signal In-place for Non-overlapping & Irregular Access Schemes», ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol.19, no. 1, Dec., 2013, DOI:10.1145/2534383 (IF: 0.685)
J6. V.I. Kelefouras, A.Kritikakou, Konstantinos Siourounis and C. Goutis, “A methodology for speeding up MVM for Regular, Toeplitz and Bisymmetric Toeplitz Matrices”, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Springer, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 1-15 , 2013, DOI:10.1007/s11265-013-0812-9 (IF: 0.551)
J5. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, “Near-optimal Microprocessor & Accelerators Co-Design with Latency & Throughput Constraints”, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), May, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2013, DOI:10.1145/2459316.2459317 (IF: 0.824)
J4. A.Kritikakou, F. Catthoor, V.I. Kelefouras and C. Goutis, “A systematic approach to classify design-time global scheduling techniques”, Journal of ACM Computed Surveys, Vol. 45, No. 2, Feb. 2013, DOI: 10.1145/2431211.2431213 (IF: 9.169)
J3. N. Alachiotis, V.I. Kelefouras, G. Athanasiou, H. Michail, A. Kritikakou and C. Goutis, “A Data Locality Methodology for Matrix-Matrix Multiplication Algorithm”, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, 2012, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 830--851, DOI: 10.1007/s11227-010-0474-3 (IF:0.917)
J2. H.E. Michail, G.S. Athanasiou, V.I. Kelefouras, G. Theodoridis, C.E. Goutis, “On the exploitation of a high-throughput SHA-256 FPGA design for HMAC”, accepted for publishing in journal of ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), vol. 5, Iss. 1, March 2012.
J1. V.I. Kelefouras, G.S. Athanasiou, N. Alachiotis, H. E. Michail, A. S. Kritikakou and C.E. Goutis, “A Methodology for Speeding Up Fast Fourier Transform Focusing on Memory Architecture Utilization”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011, Vol.59, No 12, pp.6217-6226, DOI:10.1109/TSP.2011.2168525 (IF:2.829)
(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
(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
(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
(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
(2022) 'XANDAR: Exploiting the X-by-Construction Paradigm in Model-based Development of Safety-critical Systems' 814-818
(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
(2021) 'An analytical model for loop tiling transformation' International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation , DOI Open access
(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
(2021) 'Unsupervised Machine Learning-Based Elephant and Mice Flow Identification' Springer International Publishing 357-370 , DOI
(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
(2018) 'A methodology for efficient code optimizations and memory management' ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2018 (CF '18) Ischia, Italy , DOI Open access
(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
(2015) 'FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF A MIMO DFE IN 40 GB/S DQPSK OPTICAL LINKS' EUSIPCO NICE, FRANCE
(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
(2014) 'EFFICIENT FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS OF VOLTERRA DFES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS' IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS) 0-/-1/20140-/-1/2015
(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
(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
(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