Dr. Costas Bekas

Costas Bekas is a Research Staff member with IBM Research - Zurich. He received his B. Eng., Msc and PhD, all from the Computer Engineering & Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece, in 1998, 2001 and 2003 respectively. Between 2003-2005, he worked as a postdoctoral associate with prof. Yousef Saad at the Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA. Costas's main focus is in massively parallel systems and their impact in every day life, science and business. His research agenda spans numerical and combinatorial algorithms, energy aware and fault tolerant systems/methods and computational science.