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Nikos Vilanakis

Nikos Vilanakis

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    PhD Candidate, Scientific Computing, Applied Math & Computers Lab, School of Production Engineering & Management

  • Education

    • University of Crete

      2001 - 2006
      Bachelor's degree Mathematics

    • 4th Senior High Scool, Chania, Crete

      1998 - 2001
      High School Certificate

    • Technical University of Crete

      2010 - 2013
      Master of Science (MSc) Scientific Computing - Parallel Programming

      Thesis: Numerical solution of large linear systems arising from Finite Element Methods in high performance computing architectures using Graphics Processing Units.

    • Technical University of Crete

      2017 - 2023
      Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Scientific Computing, Parallel Programming

  • Experience

    • University of Crete

      Oct 2005 - May 2006
      Teaching Assistant

      - Introduction in Computer Science- Problem Solving Workshop, supporting Linear Algebra and Calculous

    • Hellenic Army

      Feb 2007 - Feb 2008
      Military Service

      War Material Corps.Logistics office, handling the daily duty schedule, technical support and pc maintenance.

    • Senior High School

      Oct 2008 - May 2010
      Instructor

      Mathematics instructor under the Additional Τeaching Support program of the Greek Ministry of Education.

    • Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης - Technical University of Crete

      Nov 2012 - Nov 2013
      Postgraduate Researcher

      Development and implementation of the Hermite Collocation Finite Element methodon high performance computing architectures, using Graphics Processing Units andthe most recently developed API for GPU implementations, OpenACC. Gained greatinsight on NVIDIA’s GPU Fermi architecture. Comparison and evaluation of the parallelBiCGSTAB-Schur method on grid computing and on a multi-GPU environment.

    • Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης - Technical University of Crete

      May 2014 - now

      Teaching Assistant in the School of Mineral Resources in the courses of Introduction to Programming, Scientific Computing and Numerical Methods. - Researcher Assistant under the Thales ProjectAdvanced mathematical methods and software platform for solving multiphysics, multidomain problems on modern computer architectures. Applications to environmental engineering and medical problems.- Thales MATENVMED website administrator.- Research assistant under the GAIAHPC Project.- Software developer under the BWEXMIN project.

      • Research And Teaching Assistant

        Oct 2015 - now

      • Phd Researcher Assistant

        May 2014 - Jun 2020

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • HPC International Challenge Participant

      PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe)
      Jun 2015

    • CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

      The Linux Foundation
      Jul 2020
      View certificate certificate

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Nikos Vilanakis
      ISS in HPC Challenges Returning Mentor PRACE Jun 2021
    • Awarded to Nikos Vilanakis
      Best Paper Award of The 2015 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing World Congress Enginnering 2015 - IAENG 2015 Jul 2015 Best Paper Award of The 2015 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing:Solving discontinuous collocation equations for a class of brain tumor models on GPUsIAENG 2015 I. Athanassakis, Ε. Mathioudakis, N. Vilanakis
    • Awarded to Nikos Vilanakis
      ISS in HPC Challenges Sellectee - June 1, 2015 PRACE's selectee from Greece for the 2015 International Summer School in HPC Challenges.
    • Awarded to Nikos Vilanakis
      TSP Young Researcher's Award in HPC NumAn 2014 Sep 2014 Young Researcher's Award in HPC along with I. Athanassakis:Solving discontinuous collocation equations for a class of brain tumor models on GPUs
    • Awarded to Nikos Vilanakis
      Best Paper Award of The 2013 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing World Congress Enginnering 2013 - IAENG 2013 Jul 2013 Best Paper Award of The 2013 International Conference of Parallel and Distributed Computing:Parallel Iterative Solution of the Hermite Collocation Equations on GPUsIAENG 2013, Ε. Mathioudakis, N. Vilanakis, E. Papadopoulou and Y. Saridakis