Polyvios Pratikakis
Associate Professor
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
Summary
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SeniorPolyvios Pratikakis is an Associate Professor at the University of Crete and a collaborating researcher at ICS-FORTH with 15 years of experience bridging programming languages research and practical runtime systems. His work spans type systems, dynamic and static analysis, parallelism and concurrency, memory management, and data analytics, with a track record of coordinating EU projects such as ASAP and contributing to multiple national and European research efforts. He combines deep theoretical knowledge with hands-on system building, focusing on parallel and distributed runtimes that make advanced analyses and memory techniques usable in practice. Based in Heraklion, he maintains active academic-industry collaboration and mentorship, bringing research insights to production-scale problems. Notably, his profile reflects a rare blend of language theory and systems engineering, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions in scalable computing.
15 years of coding experience
Greek, French, English
Github Skills (16)
detector10
ranking9
pthreads9
science9
race-detector9
data-race9
twitter8
scrapy8
crawler8
react8
computer-science8
cpp6
python6
java5
risc1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
polyvios/locksmith
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
A data race detector for C+Pthreads programs
Contributions:22 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years
data-racecpprace-detectorpthreadsdetector
polyvios/CSrankings
Dec 2018 - Nov 2023
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues.
Contributions:7 pushes in 4 years 11 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivedepartments
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