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Christos Kozyrakis

Christos Kozyrakis

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Computer Science

D-Index
87
Citations
28782
World Ranking
730
National Ranking
386

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to transactional memory and data center architecture.

Overview

Christos Kozyrakis is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in Computer Science, with a particular focus on areas including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and Hardware and Architecture.

Their research spans multiple subfields and main topics such as:

  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Kozyrakis has published papers in several notable venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • IEEE Micro
  • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
  • ACM Transactions on Storage

Recent notable publications with year and venue are:

  • "RAMBO: Resource Allocation for Microservices Using Bayesian Optimization", 2021, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
  • "AsmDB: Understanding and Mitigating Front-End Stalls in Warehouse-Scale Computers", 2020, IEEE Micro
  • "Optimizing Video Analytics with Declarative Model Relationships", 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "DBOS", 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "RAIL: Predictable, Low Tail Latency for NVMe Flash", 2022, ACM Transactions on Storage

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kozyrakis include:

  • Matei Zaharia
  • Michael Stonebraker
  • Michael Cafarella
  • Peter Kraft
  • Kostis Kaffes

In recognition of their contributions, Kozyrakis was named an ACM Fellow in 2016 for work on transactional memory and data center architecture.

Best Publications

  • Evaluating MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems

    C. Ranger;R. Raghuraman;A. Penmetsa;G. Bradski

  • STAMP: Stanford Transactional Applications for Multi-Processing

    Chi Cao Minh;JaeWoong Chung;C. Kozyrakis;K. Olukotun

  • A case for intelligent RAM

    D. Patterson;T. Anderson;N. Cardwell;R. Fromm

  • Quasar: resource-efficient and QoS-aware cluster management

    Christina Delimitrou;Christos Kozyrakis

  • Transactional Memory Coherence and Consistency

    Lance Hammond;Vicky Wong;Mike Chen;Brian D. Carlstrom

  • Paragon: QoS-aware scheduling for heterogeneous datacenters

    Christina Delimitrou;Christos Kozyrakis

  • The case for RAMClouds: scalable high-performance storage entirely in DRAM

    John Ousterhout;Parag Agrawal;David Erickson;Christos Kozyrakis

  • Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips

    Rehan Hameed;Wajahat Qadeer;Megan Wachs;Omid Azizi

  • ZSim: fast and accurate microarchitectural simulation of thousand-core systems

    Daniel Sanchez;Christos Kozyrakis

  • Heracles: improving resource efficiency at scale

    David Lo;Liqun Cheng;Rama Govindaraju;Parthasarathy Ranganathan

  • On the energy (in)efficiency of Hadoop clusters

    Jacob Leverich;Christos Kozyrakis

  • TETRIS: Scalable and Efficient Neural Network Acceleration with 3D Memory

    Mingyu Gao;Jing Pu;Xuan Yang;Mark Horowitz

  • Full-System Power Analysis and Modeling for Server Environments

    D. Economou;Suzanne Rivoire;C. Kozyrakis;P. Ranganathan

  • An effective hybrid transactional memory system with strong isolation guarantees

    Chi Cao Minh;Martin Trautmann;JaeWoong Chung;Austen McDonald

  • IX: a protected dataplane operating system for high throughput and low latency

    Adam Belay;George Prekas;Ana Klimovic;Samuel Grossman

  • Raksha: a flexible information flow architecture for software security

    Michael Dalton;Hari Kannan;Christos Kozyrakis

  • A comparison of high-level full-system power models

    Suzanne Rivoire;Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Christos Kozyrakis

  • Phoenix rebirth: Scalable MapReduce on a large-scale shared-memory system

    Richard M. Yoo;Anthony Romano;Christos Kozyrakis

  • JouleSort: a balanced energy-efficiency benchmark

    Suzanne Rivoire;Mehul A. Shah;Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Christos Kozyrakis

  • Towards energy proportionality for large-scale latency-critical workloads

    David Lo;Liqun Cheng;Rama Govindaraju;Luiz André Barroso

Frequent Co-Authors

Kunle Olukotun
Kunle Olukotun Stanford University
Mark Horowitz
Mark Horowitz Stanford University
Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Parthasarathy Ranganathan Google (United States)
Hassan Chafi
Hassan Chafi Oracle (US)
David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley
Katherine Yelick
Katherine Yelick University of California, Berkeley
Krste Asanovic
Krste Asanovic University of California, Berkeley
David Mazières
David Mazières Stanford University

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