Research interests:

• Embedded Systems Design
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Advanced Computer Architectures
• Fault Tolerant Computing
• Dependable and Secure Computing Systems
• Digital Signal Processing
• Systems on Chip
• Computer Systems Testing

General and Program chair:

• 29th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'11) (General Chair)
• 9th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP'2011) (General co-Chair)
• 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'10) (General Chair)
• 8th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP'2010) (Program co-Chair)
• ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'09) (Program Co-chair)
• 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'09) (Program co-Chair)
• 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'08) (Program Chair)
• SAMOS VII: Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (General chair)
• XXV IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'07) (Processor Architecture Track co-Chair)
• SAMOS VI: Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling, and Simulation (Program chair)

Program committees (recent):

• The 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2010 (MICRO-43)
• The 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2010)
• DATE- Design, Automation and Test in Europe (2008, 2009, 2010)
• International Supercomputing Conference (ISC)
• International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
• ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS)
• IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC)
• International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
• IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC)
• International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures & Compilers (HiPEAC)
• International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES)
• International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS)
• International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

Refereeing (short list):

• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
• Journal of Systems and Software
• IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
• DATE - Design, Automation and Test in Europe
• International Test Conference (ITC)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
• IEEE Transactions on VLSI
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability
• IEEE Design and Test
• Journal of Low Power Electronics
• International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES)
• Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)
• ...

Courses:

• I am teaching Computer Architecture and Organization (ET2 608) (on Blackboard)
• I am teaching Introduction to Computer Engineering (Et4 246)
• I am teaching High Speed Digital Design for Embedded Systems (ET4 362) (on Blackboard)
• I taught Computer Systems Testing (Et4 076) (on Blackboard)
• I taught Elektronica (ET2 045ID) (digitale deel) (on Blackboard)
• I taught Digital Systems (ET1 622TN) (on Blackboard)

Publications: conference and journal

(some recent awards)

ACM/SIGARCH 24th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'10) Tsukuba, Japan, June 2010. Best paper award
Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2007 (WiSTP'07), Heraklion, Greece, May 2007. Best student paper award
USENIX/SAGE Large Installation System Administration conference (LISA 2006), Washington DC, USA, Dec 2006. Best paper award

Projects

I was the coordinator of an 8 million euros Integrated Project on scalable computer architecture SARC funded by the European Union (FP6 / FET-ICT contract no. 27648). The project was successfully completed in March 2010. You can find the main project contributions in the IEEE Micro special Issue "Multicore: The View from Europe" September/October 2010. A short movie about the project can be found here.

I am currently participating in:
ENCORE ENabling technologies for a programmable many-CORE, contract no. 248647 (ICT-2009.3.6 Computing Systems)
ERA Embedded Reconfigurable Architectures, contract no. 249059 (ICT-2009.3.4 Embedded System Design)

My two new projects (to start in the fall of 2011) are:
DeSyRe on-Demand System Reliability (contract no. 287611, FP7-ICT-2011-7, Computing Systems)
FASTER Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration (contract no. 287804, FP7-ICT-2011-7, Computing Systems)

My research is funded by:

• the European Commission
• Google Inc
• STW
• point.one
• CenterNovem / BSIK

PhD Alumni/ae

• Christos Strydis, Universal Processor Architecture for Biomedical Implants: The SiMS Project, March 2011
  External Examiners: Yale Patt, Alex Veidenbaum, Dirk De Ridder
  (first job: Post Doc at Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands)
• Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Custom Architecture for Immersive-audio Applications (with Georgi Kuzmanov), May 2011
  External Examiners: Walid Najjar, Dionissis Pnevmatikatos, Edoardo Charbon
  (first job: Post Doc at Technical University of Crete, Greece)
• Thomas Marconi, Efficient Runtime Management of Reconfigurable Hardware Resources, June 2011
  External Examiners: Walid Najjar, Jarmo Takala, Dionissis Pnevmatikatos
  (first job: Post Doc at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore)
• Daniele Ludovici, Technology Aware Network-on-Chip Connectivity and Synchronization Design (with Davide Bertozzi), June 2011
  External Examiners: Luigi Carro, Dionissis Pnevmatikatos, Gerard Smit
  (first job: Post Doc at the University of Ferrara, Italy)
• Yi Lu, Realistic Online Resource Management for Partially Reconfigurable Systems, July 2011
  External Examiners: Apostolos Dollas, Neil Bergmann, Lars Svensson
  (first job: Researcher at ASML, the Netherlands)
• Chunyang Gou, Customizable Memory Schemes for Data Parallel Accelerators, September 2011
  External Examiners: Andre Seznec, Per Stenstrom, Jarmo Takala
  (first job: PostDoc at TU Delft, the Netherlands)
• Sebastian Isaza, Multicore Architectures for Bioinformatics Applications, October 2011
  External Examiners: Nikitas Dimopoulos, Alex Ramirez, Holger Blume
  (first job: PostDoc at Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands)

PhD students

• Rouzbeh Amini (planned defense - end 2011 / early 2012)
• Zhijiang Chang
• Catalin Ciobanu
• Bogdan Spinean
• Ghazaleh Nazarian

PhD External Examiner

• Naim Harb, Exploring FPGA Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration in Automotive and Multimedia Systems, Universite de Valenciennes, France, Sept 23, 2011
• Felipe Cabarcas, Castell: a heterogeneous GMP architecture, UPC, Spain, Sept 19, 2011
• Ruben Gonzalez Garcia, Content Aware Architectures, UPC, Spain, December 4, 2009
• Farshad Khun Jush, Architectural Enhancement for Message Passing Interconnects, University of Victoria, Canada, September 23, 2008
• Martin Thuresson, Compression Techniques for Improved Bandwidth and Static Code Size in Computer Systems, Chalmers University, Sweden, September 19, 2008

MSc Alumni/ae
 
In addition, I was heavily involved in the organization of the Master of Science in Computer Engineering program and coordinated it until September 2006.

Talks (keynotes and invited lectures):

• Sequence Allignment Application Model for Multi-and Manycore Architecturtes, 25th International conference on Information Technologies (InfoTech-2011), Varna, Bulgaria, September 15, 2011
• Alleviating On-chip Shared Memory Bank Conflicts in Data Parallel Accelerators, Electronics 2011, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 14, 2011
• The SARC Task-centric Architecture and Programming Model, University of Amsterdam (UvA), May 30, 2011
• Is reconfigurable acceleration promising for Google Applications?, Google Inc, Mountain View, USA, February 25, 2010
• HiPEAC addresses the long-term multicore research challenges, HiPEAC 8-th Industrial workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, October 26, 2009
• SARC - the future scalable heterogeneous architecture and its programing model, keynote at the 2-nd Workshop on Programmability Issues for Multi-Core Computers (MULTIPROG), Paphos, Cyprus, January 25, 2009
• Embedded Architectures for Bioinformatics, Workshop Frontiers of High Performance Embedded Computing, Bangalore, India, January 14-16, 2009
• Polymorphic processors and toolchains, Workshop Frontiers of High Performance Embedded Computing, Bangalore, India, January 14-16, 2009
• The MOLEN Polymorphic Processor and its Dedicated Tool Chain, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, September, 2008
• SARC- the status after 2 years, CASTNESS Artist2 NoE workshop, Rome, Italy, January 2008
• SARC, Session on relevant EU projects, HiPEAC 4-th Industrial Workshop, Cambridge, UK, November 2007
• The MOLEN polymorphic processor and its dedicated toolchain, UC Riverside and UC Irvine, October 2007
• SARC: Systematic scalable approach to systems design: From small energy critical embedded systems to large scale networked data servers, Workshop on Directions in FPGAs and Reconfigurable Systems: Design, Programming and Technologies for adaptive heterogeneous Systems-on-Chip and their European Dimensions, DATE Conference 2007, Nice, France, April 2007
• Polymorphic Processors: How to Expose Arbitrary Hardware Functionality to Programmers, Guest lecture, Department of Electronic systems, Aalborg Universiteit, Denmark, April 2007
• SARC overview, Computing Architectures and Software Tools for Numerical Embedded Scalable Systems workshop and school, CASTNESS, Rome, Italy, January 2007
• Reconfigurable processors and programming paradigms, guest lecture, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2005
• Trusted Computing Platform, a quick look under the hood, AEGEE Symposium What they don't tell us; privacy and security on the computer, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 2004

Some Recommended Sites:

• Need a good (cheap) router?
• Great Utilities
• Delphi!
• Reconfigurable computing

Industrial products I helped to become reality:

  Prontomail Screen Phone P112. Design & Engineering Showcase Award, CES 1999.
  For more examples, see CPS Europe and Pijnenburg HC (now Argus Vision BV) home pages

Short about me:

Some time ago (1964) I was born in one of the oldest (trust me on this one) cities in Europe. The modern name of the city is Plovdiv (this is in Bulgaria), however it is also known as: Kendros, Eumolpia, Philippopolis, Pulpudeva, Thrimonzium, Pulden, Populdin, Ploudin and Filibe. This is actually a short list considering the city exists for 6000 to 8000 years. You can read more about Plovdiv on Wikipedia, on its official .net web page or on plovdivguide.com. Being older than most of the oldest towns like Rome, Athens or Constantinople, an almost contemporary of Troy, Plovdiv is a town built upon layers of towns and bears a culture developed upon many layers of different cultures.

After my study at the 42-nd elementary school "N.J. Vapcarov" (yes the same school Hristo Stoitchkov used to hate) and the Secondary school of Electrical Engineering and Electronics "V.I. Lenin" (also known as TET Lenin) I went to Leningrad for my University study in Voenmech one of the best Technical Universities in the formal USSR. Needless to say, first I had to spend two years of my life in the Bulgarian army (having fun with radars) before going to Leningrad (another great city with many names called St. Petersburg right now).

On return I spent some limited time working for Kintex Ltd and much longer working for System Engineering Ltd in Pravetz (R.I.P.) (having fun with IBM PC compatible computers and their peripherals). In the 90's I moved to the Netherlands and joined Pijnenburg Microelectronics and Software in Vught to continue having fun with Embedded Systems design now. In the same period I also added a degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Delft and a Dutch passport to my document collection.

Since March 2002 I am one of the Assistant Professors at the Computer Engineering laboratory, faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Only the future can tell what is next (but looks like moving to the North).