Profile

Nikitas Dimopoulos received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Athens and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1975, 1976 and 1980 respectively.

He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria (UVic) in 1988 where he is currently Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Computer Engineering. He served as the Chair of the Department (1998-2003 and 2005-2008) and was Visiting Professor at the Computer Engineering Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (2001). Previous to his appointment at UVic, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Concordia University (1980-1987) and member of the Technical Staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (1986-1987).

He has served on the Program Committee (as member of Chair) and as General Chair of several international conferences.

He has served as external evaluator for several Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments in Canada and internationally, on National and International adjudication panels (BCSC, CFI, NSERC Centers of Excellence, Graduate Programs - Greek Ministry of Education) and has been Accreditation Program Visitor for the CEAB.

His fields of interest are in parallel computers, computer architecture, quantum computing, the Grid, power aware computing and neural networks. His research has received funding from NSERC, the Canadian Cable Labs Fund, ASI, CFI, IBM and CMC.

Dr. Dimopoulos has over 190 publications including 171 papers in refereed journals and conferences, 8 edited volumes and 20 technical reports and other publications.

Professor Dimopoulos is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of BC.