Ilias Gerostathopoulos
Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIlias Gerostathopoulos is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with 14 years of experience in distributed and dependable systems, combining academic rigor with hands-on engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Charles University in Prague and previously conducted postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on component-based and model-driven software systems. His early industry experience includes backend engineering work—database migrations, Solr search integration and geo-location features—showing a practical aptitude for production systems alongside research. Ilias bridges theory and practice by publishing regularly (personal website lists publications) while supervising research that targets real-world software architecture problems. Based in Amsterdam and originally trained as an electrical and computer engineer in Greece, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that helps translate formal methods into deployable solutions. Colleagues would note his blend of deep formal expertise with a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach that surfaces in both research and operational projects.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of AthensDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Charles University in Prague
Greek, English, German, Italian, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
sumo9
simulation9
java8
sustainability7
kafka7
edismax6
php6
pecl6
jekyll6
solr6
data-processing4
realtime4
big-data3
vim3
spark1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Starofall/CrowdNav
May 2017 - May 2018
A model problem for big data self adaptive systems using SUMO and TraCI
Contributions:25 commits, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
kafkasimulationsumotraci
iliasger/TRAPP
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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