User:Nikolaos Kavvadias

Nikolaos Kavvadias received the B.Sc. degree in physics and M.Sc. in electronics engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1999 and 2002, respectively. In May 2008, he received his Ph.D. degree on the development of a methodology for the design of application-specific processors from the Department of Physics of the same university. As of current, he works at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of the University of Peloponnese as an adjunct lecturer, teaching the subjects of "Digital Circuit Design (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)", and "Compilers II/Advanced Topics in Compilers (Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010)". Past courses that he has taught include: "Hardware Description Languages I - Verilog HDL (Spring 2010)", and "Hardware Description Languages II - VHDL (Spring 2009, Fall 2009)". Recently, he had also taught the postgraduate course on "Advanced Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (Spring 2010)" focusing on compiler backend development. His current research interests include high-level synthesis of non-programmable processors, hardware application-specific processor design methodologies, hardware description languages, compilation for custom processors and energy consumption modeling for embedded processors. He is a Member of the IEEE.