Sotirios Ziavras, Professor, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Faculty, is a pioneer in multicore processing on field-programmable gate arrays and pertinent energy-consumption optimization techniques critical to the most advanced cloud computing and data science environments. Examples of his recent research contributions:

• Runtime policies for vector coprocessor sharing in general-purpose multicores to maximize the performance while optimizing the overall energy consumption.
• Real-time structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure using innovative wireless sensor networks.