Christos (Christoforos) Kozyrakis (; born 1974) is a professor of

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, where he leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST). His current research interests are on resource efficient cloud computing, energy efficient compute and memory systems, and architectural support for security. Kozyrakis was the 2015

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Maurice Wilkes Award ''for outstanding contributions to transactional memory systems''. Kozyrakis holds a Ph.D. degree from

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(advised by David A. Patterson) and a B.Sc. from

University of Crete The University of Crete (UoC; Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης) is a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented institution in Crete, Greece, located in the cities of Rethymno (official seat) and Heraklion. There are 16 main undergraduate ...

. He is an

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and an

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Christos Kozyrakis homepageChristos Kozyrakis profile at Google ScholarThe Maurice Wilkes Award
Living people Greek computer scientists Computer designers University of Crete alumni Fellows of the IEEE Stanford University faculty Stanford University Department of Computer Science faculty Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty Stanford University School of Engineering faculty 2016 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Scientists from Heraklion 1974 births Maurice Wilkes Award winners {{Academic-bio-stub