cv

the latest curriculum vitae (cv).

Basic Information

Name
Anthony Kougkas
Position
Assistant Research Professor
Location
Chicago, IL, US
Email
a.kougkas@gmail.com
Phone
+1 312 493 9389
Website
akougkas.io

Work Experience

Assistant Research Professor

Illinois Institute of Technology

2019 - Present

  • Lead researcher in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and data management for scientific ML/AI
  • Deputy Director of Gnosis Research Center
  • Led development of multiple open-source software projects including Hermes, LABIOS, and ChronoLog
  • Mentored PhD students and supervised research staff

Guest Research Faculty

Argonne National Laboratory

2024 - Present

  • Research focus on I/O optimization for leadership-class supercomputers
  • Developing advanced algorithms for data-intensive scientific computing

Skills

Research Areas

  • Distributed and Parallel I/O
  • HPC Storage and Data Management
  • Data Systems for Scientific ML/AI
  • Multi-tiered Storage Systems
  • Data Prefetching
  • In-transit/In-situ Processing

Projects

Hermes

Distributed multi-tiered I/O buffering platform

  • HDF5-based data structures
  • Intelligent optimization for emerging memory hierarchies

Project Link


LABIOS

Label-based, scalable, and adaptive I/O system

  • Dynamic resource scheduling
  • Energy-efficient distributed storage

Project Link


ChronoLog

High-performance, distributed, shared log storage

  • Physical time-based event ordering
  • Elastic scaling across storage tiers

Project Link

Service

Editorial Service

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Editorial Member (2021 - Present)

Conference Service

  • SC - Conference for High Performance Computing (2020-2024)
  • IPDPS - International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (2020-2021)
  • CCGrid - International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (2023-2024)