Georgios Zervakis

Georgios Zervakis

Assistant Professor
University of Patras

About

Georgios Zervakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics Department (CEID), University of Patras, Greece, since September 2022. Before joining CEID, he was a Research Group Leader at the Chair for Embedded Systems (CES), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. During his time at CES (August 2019 - September 2022), he led research initiatives focusing on digital design for approximate and machine-learning circuits. Dr. Zervakis received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2012 and 2018, respectively. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he continued his academic pursuits as a post-doctoral researcher at NTUA before joining KIT a year later. Additionally, Dr. Zervakis has worked in many EU-funded research projects as a research associate of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Athens, Greece (Dec 2015-Aug 2019). As a member of KIT he worked on a German Research Foundation (DFG) project. He actively participates in academic communities, serving as a reviewer for several IEEE and ACM Transactions journals and is also a technical program committee member of the major design conferences (incl. DAC, DATE, ICCAD). His main research interests include digital design, low-power, accelerator microarchitectures, approximate computing, design automation, circuit synthesis and optimization, emerging technologies, printed electronics, and machine learning.

Recent News

  • [3/2024][paper]: Our paper “Late Breaking Results: Language-level QoR modeling for High-Level Synthesis”, a collaboration with Microlab, NTUA, is accepted by Design Automation Conference 2024 (DAC’24).

  • [3/2024][service]: Georgios chairs the session “FPGA Solutions” at the Design Automation and Test in Europe 2024 Conference (DATE’24)

  • [3/2024][paper]: Our abstract “Logic Synthesis of Resource-Efficient xSFQ Circuits with Mature Toolchains”, a collaboration with University of Michigan, is accepted for oral presentation by Applied Superconductivity Conference 2024 (ASC’24).

  • [2/2024][paper]: Our paper “Synthesis of Resource-Efficient Superconducting Circuits with Clock-Free Alternating Logic”, a collaboration with University of Michigan, is accepted by Design Automation Conference 2024 (DAC’24).

  • [2/2024][paper]: Our paper “Fault Sensitivity Analysis of Printed Bespoke Multilayer Perceptron Classifiers”, a collaboration with CDNC, KIT, is accepted by European Test Symposium 2024 (ETS’24).

  • [2/2024][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of Design Automation Conference 2024 (DAC’24).

  • [12/2023][paper]: Our paper “Hardware-Aware DNN Compression via Diverse Pruning and Mixed-Precision Quantization”, a collaboration with CES, KIT, and SIU is accepted by Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.

  • [11/2023][paper]:
    • Our paper “On-sensor Printed Machine Learning Classification via Bespoke ADC and Decision Tree Co-Design”, a collaboration with CDNC, KIT, is accepted by Design Automation and Test in Europe 2024 Conference (DATE’24).
    • Our paper “Embedding Hardware Approximations in Discrete Genetic-based Training for Printed MLPs”, a collaboration with CDNC, KIT, is accepted by Design Automation and Test in Europe 2024 Conference (DATE’24).

  • [11/2023][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of Design Automation and Test in Europe 2024 Conference (DATE’24).

  • [10/2023][award + service]:
    • Georgios receives the 2023 IEEE ICCAD Inaugural Best Reviewer Award, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2023, San Francisco, US. I feel really honored, thank you!
    • Georgios Chairs the session “Hot Microarchitectures: Modeling and Design” at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2023 (ICCAD’23).

  • [7/2023][funding]: Our proposal, “AutoPNN: Automated Printed Neural Network via Software-Hardware Approximation and Codesign for Machine Learning Classification in Printed Electronics” is selected for funding by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI) under the call “Basic Research Financing (Horizontal support for all Sciences), National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Greece 2.0)”.

  • [7/2023][paper]: Our paper “Bespoke Approximation of Multiplication-Accumulation and Activation Targeting Printed Multilayer Perceptrons”, a collaboration with CDNC, KIT, is accepted by IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2023 (ICCAD’23).

  • [7/2023][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2023 (ICCAD’23).

  • [5/2023][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI’23).

  • [1/2023][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of Late Breaking Results (LBR), Design Automation and Test in Europe 2023 Conference (DATE’23).

  • [12/2022][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design 2023 (ISQED’23).

  • [11/2022][talk]: Georgios gave an invited talk at the IEEE Seasonal School SMART-IC, Thessaloniki, Greece, “Machine Learning Classification On Printed Circuits”.

  • [11/2022][paper]: Our paper “Hardware-Aware Automated Neural Minimization for Printed Multilayer Perceptrons”, a collaboration with CDNC and CES, KIT, is accepted by Design Automation and Test in Europe 2023 Conference (DATE’23).

  • [11/2022][service]: Georgios serves on the TPC of Design Automation and Test in Europe 2023 Conference (DATE’23).

  • [10/2022][talk + service]:
    • Georgios gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2022 (ICCAD’22), San Diego, USA, “Extremely Resource Constrained ML Inference via Approximation and Codesign”.
    • Georgios co-chairs the session “Accelerators on A New Horizon” at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2022 (ICCAD’22).

  • [9/2022][paper]: Our paper “AdaPT: Fast Emulation of Approximate DNN Accelerators in PyTorch”, a collaboration with CES, KIT, is accepted by Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

  • [9/2022]: Georgios joins University of Patras as an Assistant Professor at CEID.

  • [9/2022]: Georgios is departing from KIT, and he extends his heartfelt gratitude to Prof. Henkel and his group for making these past three years truly wonderful. Many thanks!!