Work:

• Position: PostDoctoral researcher, Neuroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam
  
  
  
• Ph.D. Thesis title: "Universal Processor Architecture for Biomedical Implants: The SiMS Project" [pdf] [bib]
  [Visit the official project website for more information]
• Promotor: Paddy French (originally Stamatis Vassiliadis), Co-Promotor: Georgi N. Gaydadjiev
• Thesis abstract: Healthcare in the 21st century is changing rapidly. In advanced countries, in particular, healthcare is moving from a public to a more personalized nature. However, the costs of healthcare worldwide are increasing every year. Better use of technology can and should be used to get control of these costs. At the same time, implants have clearly benefitted from the astounding technology-miniaturization trends of late, boasting smaller sizes, lower power consumption and increased performance of the transistor devices. However, such advances do not come for free. Adverse effects in current implant designs are being witnessed, such as increasing power consumption, absence of design for reliability and highly application-specific nature. Operating under the assumption that implants will constitute an important means towards improved, personal healthcare and, in view of the aforementioned design phenomena, we believe that a new paradigm in implant design is required.
  This dissertation establishes the concept of Smart implantable Medical Systems (SiMS). SiMS is a systematic approach -- a framework -- for providing biomedical researchers and, hopefully, industry with a toolbox of ready-to-use, highly reliable implant sub-systems and models in order to construct optimal implants for various medical applications. The SiMS framework has to guarantee essential attributes, such as high dependability, modular design, ultra-low power consumption and miniature size. Having defined the SiMS framework, this dissertation is, then, concerned with exploring the optimal microarchitectural details of a crucial SiMS component: the SiMS processor. Contrary to the current state of the art, this processor aspires to be a new universal, low-power and low-cost processor and capable of efficiently serving a wide range of diverse implant applications.
• SiMS M.Sc. projects: There are currently available various M.Sc. topics within the SiMS framework. Some of them are posted here (indicated by the SiMS term). If you find yourself interested in those or other potential, SiMS-related work, don't hesitate to contact me .
  
  
  
• M.Sc. Thesis title: "Implantable microelectronic devices: a comprehensive review" [pdf] [bib]
• Advisors: Stamatis Vassiliadis, Georgi N. Gaydadjiev
  The MSc thesis document has been largely expanded and updated in the form of a Technical Report (CE-TR-2006-01).
  Please defer to this report for latest and more accurate findings. [pdf] [bib] (awaiting publication -- coming soon)
  
  
  
• Research interests
  • Implantable medical devices
  • Fault-tolerant computing, dependable systems
  • Low-power computer architectures
  
  

• Curriculum Vitae: English version [pdf, last upd. 25/03/10], Greek version [pdf, last upd. 30/08/06]
  

Peer Reviewing:

• Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation 2005 (SAMOS V).
• IEEE 16th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'05).
• "Sensors And Actuators A: Physical" Journal 2005.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI 2005 (ISVLSI'05).
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe 2006 (DATE'06).
• "Sensors And Actuators A: Physical" Journal 2006.
• 13th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop 2006 (RAW'06).
• International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing 2006 (ARC'06).
• The 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2006 (ISCA'06).
• International Symposium on System-on-Chip 2006 (SOC'06).
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits And Systems 2007 (ISCAS'07).
• 14th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop 2007 (RAW'07).
• "Sensors And Actuators A: Physical" Journal 2007.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI 2007 (ISVLSI'07).
• International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS Workshop '07).
• International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'07).
• IEEE 18th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'07).
• The 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL'07).
• International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES'07).
• International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS'07).
• The 25th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'07).
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe 2008 (DATE'08).
• International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS'08).
• "Sensors And Actuators A: Physical" Journal 2008.
• International Workshop on Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS Workshop '08).
• Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation 2008 (SAMOS VIII).
• IEEE 18th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'08).
• IFIP/IEEE 16th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration System-on-Chip (VLSI-SOC'08).
• 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'08).
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe 2009 (DATE'09).
• IEEE 20th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP'09).
• International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'09).
• IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems (ICECS'09).
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits And Systems 2010 (ISCAS'10).
• 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-43)

Presentations:

• Hellenic Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Meeting 2007 [pdf]
• My take on a LaTeX2e tutorial, largely based on the work of others [ppt]

>>International<<

1. C. Strydis, G. N. Gaydadjiev, The Case for a Generic Implant Processor, 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 08), pp. 3186-3191, Vancouver, Canada, August 2008 (BibTeX)
2. C. Strydis, C. Kachris, G. N. Gaydadjiev, ImpBench: A novel benchmark suite for biomedical, microelectronic implants, Int. Conf. on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (IC-SAMOS VIII), pp. 86-95, Samos, Greece, July 2008 (BibTeX)
3. C. Strydis, D. Zhu, G. N. Gaydadjiev, Profiling of Symmetric-Encryption Algorithms for a Novel Biomedical-Implant Architecture, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF 08), pp. 231-240, Ischia, Italy, May 2008 (BibTeX)
4. C. Strydis, G. N. Gaydadjiev, Profiling of Lossless-Compression Algorithms for a Novel Biomedical-Implant Architecture, The 6th IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/Software codesign and system synthesis, pp. 109-114, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2008 (BibTeX)
5. C. Strydis, Suitable cache organizations for a novel biomedical implant processor, The 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, pp. 591-598, Lake Tahoe, California, USA, December 2008 (BibTeX)

>>Local Proceedings<<

6. D. Zhu, Profiling Symmetric Encryption Algorithms for Implantable Medical Devices, December 2008, MSc Thesis (BibTeX)
7. J. H. Bonarius, Low Power Techniques for Computer Architectures, pp. 82, August 2006, CE-MS-2006-14, MSc Thesis (BibTeX)
8. C. Strydis, G. N. Gaydadjiev, S. Vassiliadis, A New Digital Architecture For Reliable, Ultra-Low-Power Systems, Proceedings ProRISC 2006, pp. 350-355, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 2006 (BibTeX)
9. C. Strydis, G. N. Gaydadjiev, S. Vassiliadis, An extensive survey of microelectronic implants, Architectures and Compilers for Embedded Systems (ACES), Ter Elst, Edegem, Belgium, October 2006 (BibTeX)
10. C. Strydis, G. N. Gaydadjiev, S. Vassiliadis, A generic digital architecture & compiler for implantable devices, Architectures and Compilers for Embedded Systems (ACES), Ter Elst, Edegem, Belgium, September 2005 (BibTeX)

>>Theses<<

11. C. Strydis, Universal Processor Architecture for Biomedical Implants: The SiMS Project, March 2011, PhD Dissertation (BibTeX)
12. C. Strydis, Implantable microelectronic devices, July 2005, MSc Thesis (BibTeX)
13. C. Strydis, Interface and wireless embedded applications of Bluetooth, based on microcontrollers, June 2003, BSc Thesis

Interesting Links:

Academic & Nerd Stuff:

• Conference alerts: Health Conferences Worldwide.
• Do you ever wonder which journal is best for publishing your research? Check the ISI Web of Knowledge for crucial journal statistics such as impact factor (I.F.) and many more! (NOTE: campus or personal registration is required).
• Three more links for digging out tons of publications: Google Scholar and Scirus and Scopus.
• Looking for a cummulative Hellenic catalog of scientific work? Check: Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL).
• Greek medical associations & institutions:
  • Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens.
  • Institute of Biomedical Research & Technology.
  • Hellenic Bio Cluster (HBio).
• World Health Organization (WHO).
• Browse the Warga machine to get your hands on specific tools, designs flows and technologies. (NOTE: faculty-based website access)
• The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).
• DISens - Delft University Research Center for Intelligent Sensor Microsystems.
• TU Delft Blackboard.
• The digital version of the "EE Times" magazine.
• Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips!
• Esoterica.gr - "the truth is out there" (in Greek).
• InStat's microprocessor watch list.
• The transistor museum. Learn your past to guess the future :-p
• WebSurg - It might look gross to the untrained eye but it is cool and it offers online surgery videos.
• Care for an excellent online biology text book for beginners?
• All about circuits in AllAboutCircuits.com :-).
• LaTeX varia:
  • Stuck in LaTeX? Try the LaTeX tricks page. Or the Hypertext Help with Latex. And here is a LaTeX primer.
  • A neat table-tricks page for LaTeX, which is part of this A-mazing top page loaded with very useful GUI-enabled LaTeX widgets.
  • Oh, and here is a very useful page with common errors messages appearing in LaTeX.
  • And this is the CTAN official website.
• Author's guides using LaTeX:
  • Conference Proceedings LATEX2E Submission FAQ.
  • Alternate Author's Guide to Preparing ACM SIG Proceedings, Using LaTEX2e and BibTEX.
• If you cannot exactly get those Type-1 embedded fonts and letter-size page margins in LaTex, here is a home-baked how-to for configuring WinEdt. Enjoy!
• How to classify works using ACM's computing classification system.
• Top Two Levels of The ACM Computing Classification System (1998).
• GNU Make varia:
  • How to write a Makefile
  • An Introduction to the UNIX Make Utility
  • Make Tutorial
  • The "Ubermeister": GNU `make'
  • make Tutorial
• SimpleScalar varia:
  • One of the most useful (and working) SimpleScalar installation guides. (Many thanks, Demid Borodin for your help!)
  • Official SimpleScalar website.
  • SimpleScalar Version 4.0 releases.
  • The Linux-arm archives.
  • xlife: Life in Linux ( ... and columns).
• Cross-compilation varia:
  • ARM cross-compiling howto (step-by-step installation and comments).
  • Official ARM/Simplescalar webpage.
  • A nice-looking StrongARM toolchain directory (untried tho!).
  • A nice-looking ARM/XScale toolchain directory (untried, too, tho!).
  • A nice page with lots of information on ARM-linux toolchains.
  • Crosstool: a great, automated tool for building cross-compiler tool chains!!
  • Buildroot: generates a cross-compilation toolchain and root filesystem for your target Linux system using the uClibc C library.
  • A short explanation of what lies in building a cross-compiler (no need to follow the whole thread discussion).
• A white paper on how to install multiple compiler versions in a linux environment.
• A great "pthreads" (POSIX threads) tutorial page.
• A handy page with quick VIM tricks. And another one. And another one.
• And yet one with quick SED one-liners.
• And a nice intro shell programming page. An advanced guide can be found here.
• Perl varia:
  • An official Perl tutorial on the much dreaded Regular Expressions (RE).
• A graph gallery created with the R programming environment. An interesting open-source, alternative to Matlab plotting...
• Discovery's "The Skiny on..." - An alternative, joyous way to explain science.
• Arithmetic or geometric mean? Most people use them wrongly. Here is a nice thread explaining when to use which. And here is another short but intuitive comparison. Last, the Wiki page with the proofs about their inequality.
  
  

Communities & Associations:

• Promood - the representative body of PhD candidates at Delft University of Technology.
• The first-ever, brand new, shiny, top-notch, butt-kickin'... Greek Community of TU Delft. We are here to stay!
• Back to the roots, eh? - Microprocessor & Hardware Laboratory (M.H.L.)
• My Madrid Summer Course 2001 unofficial webpage.
  
  

Merely Geek Stuff:

• Mojo Art - The unofficial LucasArt gallery.
• Star Wars: A New Hope - The ASCII version!! (connection to telnet site)
• KeyGen music ;-)
• Text files on ... well, anything.
• AMInet - The largest Amiga software archive
• Ancient Toys - Amiga Abandonware Game Site
• Roleplaying Laughs...
• Classics at the Online Literature Library
• Project Gutenberg - Thousands of classic works for free since their copyright has expired!
• 80sCartoons.net - The most complete reference to... yep! animation series of 80s! ;-)
• For those times that you know the song lyrics but seem to forget the chords or vice versa, go to kithara.vu. Thousands of Greek-song lyrics, tabs and chords.
• If you want a portal for guitar-related discussions, queries, guitar tutorials or advanced topics, user songs and more, try kithara.gr (in Greek).
• Webcast music for studying sessions: Groovera. Try using WinAmp or something similar, one of the following flavors:
  • Groovera Ambient Popsicle: http://popsicle.groovera.com:80/
  • Groovera - Low Mercury: http://lowmercury.groovera.com:80/
  • Groovera - Jet City Lounge: http://jetcitylounge.groovera.com:80/    (my personal favorite!)
• Wanna find your way around in Greece fast? Check DriveMe.gr.
• For those believers out there: Orthodox Churches in the Netherlands.
• Browse the globe from a satellite with Heavens-Above. Find the coordinates and more!
• A really diverse and fun page with a twist of brilliance. Paul Bourke.
• Piled Higher & Deeper filmstrip-style comic. Especially for Ph.D. students. Hilarious, insightful and unsettlingly familiar... ;-).
• Tzedes.com Dictionary - one word: Un-friggin-believable!!! (in Greek). I only wish y'all were speaking Greek to read it.
• Marktplaats: a Dutch flavored E-Bay.

Web Resources:

• "Molecular Biology of the Cell" pages.
• "Principles of Semiconductor Devices" book.
• Guide to the Necropsy of the Mouse, Vincenzo Covelli.
• Food for thought - extensive list of free resources (books, tutorials etc.).

Experimental Services:

• Post a message in my silly forum...
• Click counter statistics (admin only).
• Downloads page.
• Promotional video about Master and PhD in Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems and Micro-electronics.