cv
the latest curriculum vitae (cv).
Basic Information
- Name
- Anthony Kougkas
- Position
- Assistant Research Professor
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- 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
LABIOS
Label-based, scalable, and adaptive I/O system
- Dynamic resource scheduling
- Energy-efficient distributed storage
ChronoLog
High-performance, distributed, shared log storage
- Physical time-based event ordering
- Elastic scaling across storage tiers
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)