CV

Education

• PhD. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, ECE, NTUA, 2017.
• Diploma (M.Eng.). in Electrical and Computer Engineering, ECE, NTUA, 2012.

Work experience

• 2024-: Lecturer in Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing
  • School of Computing Science (SoCS)
  • College of Science and Engineering (CoSE)
  • University of Glasgow, UK
• 2022-2024: Post-doctoral Researcher
  • Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
  • Departement of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• 2017-2022: Post-doctoral Researcher
  • Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab)
  • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• 2017-2022: Researcher
  • Institute of Computing and Communication Systems (ICCS), Greece
  • Affiliated with the National Technical University of Athens
• 2012-2017: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab)
  • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• 2016: Research Aide
  • Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS)
  • Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA

Research projects (funded)

Past projects:

• The European PILOT: The European PILOT project (Pilot using Independent, Local and Open Technologies) aims at showcasing an European accelerator, designed, implemented, manufactured, and owned by Europe and based on open source and open standards. 2022- (website)
• eProcessor: European, extendable, energy-efficient, energetic, embedded, extensible, Processor Ecosystem. 2022- (website)
• REGALE: An open architecture to equip next generation HPC applications with exascale capabilities. 2022. (website)
• CYBELE: Fostering precision agriculture and livestock farming through secure access to large-scale HPC-enabled virtual industrial experimentation environment, empowering scalable big data analytics. 2019-2022. (website)
• HiDALGO: HPC and Big Data Technologies for Global Systems. 2018-2022. (website)
• EuroEXA: Co-designed Innovation and System for Resilient Exascale Computing in Europe: From Applications to Silicon. 2017-2022. (website)
• ActiCLOUD: ACTivating resource efficiency and large databases in the CLOUD. 2019. (website)

Publications

Exploring SYCL as a portability layer for high-performance computing on CPUs

Hari Abram, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericas. 2025.
High Performance Computing: 40th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2025, Hamburg, Germany, June 10-13, 2025.

CoCoPeLia: Communication-Computation Overlap Prediction for Efficient Linear Algebra on GPUs

Petros Anastasiadis, Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2021.
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, ISPASS 2021, Stony Brook, NY, USA, March 28-30, 2021.

P-Flee: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Simulating Human Migration

Petros Anastasiadis, Sergiy Gogolenko, Nikela Papadopoulou, Marcin Lawenda, Hamid Arabnejad, Alireza Jahani, Imran Mahmood, Derek Groen. 2021.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPS Workshops 2021, Portland, OR, USA, June 17-21, 2021.

PARALiA: A Performance Aware Runtime for Auto-tuning Linear Algebra on heterogeneous systems

Petros Anastasiadis, Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris, Dennis Hoppe, Li Zhong. 2023.
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization.

Uncut-GEMMs: Communication-aware Matrix Multiplication on Multi-GPU Nodes

Petros Anastasiadis, Nikela Papadopoulou, Nectarios Koziris, Georgios Goumas. 2024.
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2024, CLUSTER 2024, Kobe, Japan, September 24-27, 2024.

Performance Prediction of NUMA Placement: A Machine-Learning Approach

Fanourios Arapidis, Vasileios Karakostas, Nikela Papadopoulou, Konstantinos Nikas, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2018.
2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, December 10-13, 2018.

Analysis and Characterization of Performance Variability for OpenMP Runtime

Minyu Cui, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericas. 2023.
Proceedings of the SC '23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis.

Converging HPC, Big Data and Cloud Technologies for Precision Agriculture Data Analytics on Supercomputers

Yiannis Georgiou, Naweiluo Zhou, Li Zhong, Dennis Hoppe, Marcin Pospieszny, Nikela Papadopoulou, Kostis Nikas, Orestis Lagkas Nikolos, Pavlos Kranas, Sophia Karagiorgou, Eric Pascolo, Michael Mercier, Pedro Velho. 2020.
High Performance Computing - ISC High Performance 2020 International Workshops, Frankfurt, Germany, June 21-25, 2020, Revised Selected Papers.

SynCron: Efficient Synchronization Support for Near-Data-Processing Architectures

Christina Giannoula, Nandita Vijaykumar, Nikela Papadopoulou, Vasileios Karakostas, Ivan Fernandez, Juan Gomez-Luna, Lois Orosa, Nectarios Koziris, Georgios I. Goumas, Onur Mutlu. 2021.
IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA 2021, Seoul, South Korea, February 27 - March 3, 2021.

Large-Scale Parallelization of Human Migration Simulation

Derek Groen, Nikela Papadopoulou, Petros Anastasiadis, Marcin Lawenda, Lukasz Szustak, Sergiy Gogolenko, Hamid Arabnejad, Alireza Jahani. 2023.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

Accelerating CNN inference on long vector architectures via co-design

Sonia Rani Gupta, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericas. 2023.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2023, St. Petersburg, FL, USA, May 15-19, 2023.

Challenges and Opportunities in the Co-Design of Convolutions and RISC-V Vector Processors

Sonia Rani Gupta, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericas. 2023.
Proceedings of the SC '23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis.

Co-Design of Convolutional Algorithms and Long Vector RISC-V Processors for Efficient CNN Model Serving

Sonia Rani Gupta, Nikela Papadopoulou, Jing Chen, Miquel Pericas. 2024.
The 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2024, Gotland, Sweden, August 12-15, 2024.

Contention-Aware Scheduling Policies for Fairness and Throughput

Alexandros-Herodotos Haritatos, Nikela Papadopoulou, Konstantinos Nikas, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2016.
Co-Scheduling of HPC Applications [extended versions of all papers from COSH at HiPEAC 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, January 19, 2016].

Modeling the Scalability of the EuroExa Reconfigurable Accelerators - Preliminary Results - Invited Paper

Panagiotis Miliadis, Panagiotis Mpakos, Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios I. Goumas, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos. 2021.
Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation - 21st International Conference, SAMOS 2021, Virtual Event, July 4-8, 2021, Proceedings.

On the Performance and Energy Efficiency of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on FPGAs

Panagiotis Mpakos, Nikela Papadopoulou, Chloe Alverti, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2019.
Parallel Computing: Technology Trends, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computing, PARCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-13, 2019.

Feature-based SpMV Performance Analysis on Contemporary Devices

Panagiotis Mpakos, Dimitrios Galanopoulos, Petros Anastasiadis, Nikela Papadopoulou, Nectarios Koziris, Georgios I. Goumas. 2023.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2023, St. Petersburg, FL, USA, May 15-19, 2023.

DICER: Diligent Cache Partitioning for Efficient Workload Consolidation

Konstantinos Nikas, Nikela Papadopoulou, Dimitra Giantsidi, Vasileios Karakostas, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2019.
Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP 2019, Kyoto, Japan, August 05-08, 2019.

A Machine-Learning Approach for Communication Prediction of Large-Scale Applications

Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2015.
2015 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2015, Chicago, IL, USA, September 8-11, 2015.

Optimizing resource utilization on large-scale systems through predictive communication modeling

Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2017.
NovExS-RAMbO: Workshop on Novel Exascale Systems / Rack-Scale Memory Systems and Models at HiPEAC 2017, Stochkolm, Sweden, 2017.

A Performance Study of UCX over InfiniBand

Nikela Papadopoulou, Lena Oden, Pavan Balaji. 2017.
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGRID 2017, Madrid, Spain, May 14-17, 2017.

Predictive communication modeling for HPC applications

Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios I. Goumas, Nectarios Koziris. 2017.
Cluster Comput 20 (2017): 2725-2747.

ODIN: Overcoming Dynamic Interference in iNference Pipelines

Pirah Noor Soomro, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericas. 2023.
Euro-Par 2023: Parallel Processing - 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Limassol, Cyprus, August 28 - September 1, 2023, Proceedings.

Accordion: A malleable pipeline scheduling approach for adaptive SLO-aware inference serving

Pirah Noor Soomro, Nikela Papadopoulou, Miquel Pericas. 2025.
The 22nd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, Cagliari, Italy, May 28-30, 2025.

Teaching

Internet Technology (COMPSCI5012)

School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2025

Internet Technology (COMPSCI5012)

School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2024

Systems Programming (H) (COMPSCI4081)

School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2024

GPU-accelerated computational methods using Python and CUDA

TRACKS, Chalmers University of Technology. 2022, 2023

High-performance parallel programming

CSE, Chalmers University of Technology. 2022, 2023

Data communication

CSE, Chalmers University of Technology. 2023

Technical Writing in Computer Systems and Networks

CSE, Chalmers University of Technology. 2022

Parallel architectures for Machine Learning

DSML, National Technical University of Athens. 2019-2022

Parallel processing systems

ECE, National Technical University of Athens. 2012-2021

Operating Systems

ECE, National Technical University of Athens. 2017-2018

Advanced Computer Architecture

ECE, National Technical University of Athens. 2017-2018

Fundamentals of Computer Science

ECE, National Technical University of Athens. 2015-2018

Chair - Conferences/Workshops

• AsHES Workshop @ IPDPS 2024, Program Co-Chair
• FPL 2023, Proceedings Chair
• AsHES Workshop @ IPDPS 2023, Program Co-Chair
• ARCS 2022, Program Co-Chair
• EuroExaScale Workshop @ HiPEAC 2020, Program Co-Chair

PC Member - Conferences

• IEEE HiPC 2023-2024
• IEEE/SBC SBAC-PAD 2024
• IEEE CLUSTER 2024
• EuroPar 2024 (Posters & Demos)
• ICPP 2024 (Posters)
• ISPDC 2022-2024
• ACM ICS 2022-2023
• Computing Frontiers 2021-2022
• EuroMPI/USA 2018 (Posters)

PC Member - Workshops

• HIPS Workshop @ IPDPS 2023-2024
• ICCS Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Workshop 2020-2024
• AsHES Workshop @ IPDPS 2020-2022
• HiPINEB Workshop @ HPCA 2019

Journal Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
• Journal of Systems Architecture
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• IEEE Access
• International Journal on Parallel Computing (PARCO)
• Software: Practice and Experience