Marios D. Dikaiakos

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: (206) 543-0206
Fax: (206) 685-0403

Email: marios@cs.washington.edu

Research interests

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
June 1994, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: ``FAST : A Functional Algorithm Simulation Testbed.''
Advisors: Kenneth Steiglitz, Anne Rogers.

M.A. in Computer Science
1991, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
July 1988, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. High Honors.
Title of Diploma Thesis: ``Signal Segmentation Techniques.''

European Community Summer Program Diploma
July 1994, Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris, France.

Research Experience

Research Associate [Feb. 1994 - present]
Departments of Computer Science-Eng. Astronomy (HPCC Project).
University of Washington, Seattle.

Research Assistant [Jan. 1988 - Jan. 1994]
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University.

Software Engineer [Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1990]
Paris Research Laboratory, DEC, Paris, France.

Teaching Experience

CSE 590P: Tools for Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Parallel Systems
Fall 1994, Dept. of Computer Science-Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle.

CS113: Introduction to Computer Science (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 1988, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University.

Publications

Journal Papers

``Comparison of Tree and Straight-Line Clocking for Long Systolic Arrays,'' with K. Steiglitz, in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, 2, pp. 287-299, 1991.

``Functional Algorithm Simulation of the Fast Multipole Method: Architectural Implications,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, Parallel Processing Letters (to appear, 1996).

``A Comparison Study of Heuristics for Mapping Parallel Algorithms to Message Passing Microprocessors,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications, Vol. 10, No. 3-4 (to appear).

Conference Papers

``Spatial Organization of Neural Networks: A Probabilistic Modeling Approach,'' with A. Stafylopatis and D. Kontoravdis, in Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems, 1988, American Institute of Physics, NY, Dana Z. Anderson (ed.).

``Comparison of Tree and Straight-Line Clocking for Long Systolic Arrays,'' with K. Steiglitz, in 1991 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toronto, Canada, 1991.

``Message Ordering in Multiprocessors with Synchronous Communication,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, in Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference on Parallel Processing Chicago, Illinois.

``Functional Algorithm Simulation: A New Approach for Modeling the Parallel Execution of Scientific Applications, with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, in DIMACS Workshop on Models, Architectures, and Technologies for Parallel Computation DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, September 1993.

``FAST: A Functional Algorithm Simulation Testbed,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, in International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems - MASCOTS'94 IEEE-Computer Society Press, February 1994.

``A Comparison of Techniques Used for Mapping Parallel Algorithms to Message-Passing Multiprocessors,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, in 6th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Dallas, Texas, October 1994.

``The Portable Parallel Implementation of Two Novel Mathematical Biology Algorithms in ZPL,'' with C. Lin, D. Manoussaki and D. Woodward, 9th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing Barcelona, Spain, June 1995.

Submitted for Publication

``Functional Algorithm Simulation: Implementation and Experiments,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz.

``A Performance Study of Cosmological Simulations on Message-Passing and Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,'' with J. Stadel.

Technical Reports

``Comparison of Tree and Straight-Line Clocking for Long Systolic Arrays,'' with K. Steiglitz, TR-271-90, Princeton University, June 1990.

``Functional Algorithm Simulation: Implementation and Experiments,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, TR-429-93, Princeton University, June 1993.

``A Comparison Study of Heuristics for Mapping Parallel Algorithms to Message-Passing Multiprocessors,'' with A. Rogers and K. Steiglitz, TR-446-94, Princeton University, January 1994.

Unpublished Work

``Signal Segmentation Techniques,'' Diploma Thesis (high honors), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, July 1988.

``Design and Implementation of an Image Resampler/Convolver on the Programmable Active Memories,'' Digital Equipment Corporation, Paris Research Laboratory, January 1991.

Invited Talks

``Functional Algorithm Simulation: Implementation and Experiments.'' NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, First Biannual Technical Review of HPCC/ESS Grand Challenge Investigations, Washington DC, USA, October 29, 1993.

``FAST: An experimental system of Functional Algorithm Simulation.'' IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA, November 2, 1994.

``Functional Algorithm Simulation: Implementation and Experiments.'' N-Body Problem Lecture Series, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA, April 1, 1994.

``Parallel Tree Codes for the N-Body problem and their Application to Cosmological Simulation.''
Computer Science Institute, Foundation of Research and Development Hellas, Herakleion, Greece, April 11, 1995; and Computer Science Division, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Natl' Tech. University of Athens, Athens, Greece, April 13, 1995.

``Functional Algorithm Simulation.'' Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, July 11, 1995.

Awards

Fellowship, 1984 and 1987,
National Scholarships Foundation, Athens, Greece.

Honorary Award, 1988,
Technical Chamber of Greece, Athens, Greece.

Professional Activities

Member, Technical Chamber of Greece.

Student member, ACM.

Referee (1990-1995), ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, International Journal of Parallel Processing, International Conference on Supercomputing, International Conference on Parallel Processing, ACM Symposium on Parallel Language Design and Implementation, Supercomputing '94 and '95, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Sigmetrics '96.

Organized a series of joint seminars for Astronomers and Computer Scientists at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington, Fall 1994.

Personal Data

Citizenship: Hellenic

Languages: fluent in English, French, and Greek (native).

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