Christos Kozyrakis
Leonard Bosack and Sandy K. Lerner Professor of Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford University
Christos Kozyrakis is the Leonard Bosack and Sandy K. Lerner Professor of Engineering and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on computer architecture and computer systems. His past research has explored near-data processing, transactional memory, cloud management, operating systems for low latency, and hardware support for security. His current projects focus on cloud computing infrastructure, systems for machine learning, and machine learning for systems.
Christos received his BS from the University of Crete and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. His honors include the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, the IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, the ISCA Influential Paper Award, the ASPLOS Influential Paper Award, and the HPCA Test of Time Award.
Christos leads the MAST research group at Stanford. Check the MAST site for projects, papers, and members.
Teaching
Christos regularly teaches Digital Systems Architecture (EE180), Computer Systems Architecture (EE282), and AI Inference Infrastructure (CS349D).
He occasionally teaches Computer Systems from the Ground Up (CS107E) and An Intro to Making: What Is EE? (ENGR40M). He is the faculty sponsor for Cloud Infrastructure and Scalable Applications (CS40).
Book
Christos co-authored the 7th edition of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach with John Hennessy and David Patterson. The book also has a companion site.