Thanos Stratikopoulos
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThanos Stratikopoulos is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester with seven years of experience specializing in heterogeneous architectures, reconfigurable accelerators, and hardware acceleration across IoT, Edge, and Cloud deployments. He contributes to EU Horizon projects—ELEGANT, TANGO, and AERO—working on making TornadoVM a transparent accelerator for managed languages and helping shape an emerging EU cloud processor software stack. His hands-on work includes adding Xilinx FPGA support to the widely used TornadoVM open-source project, bridging OpenCL and HLS workflows to enable practical FPGA acceleration. Combining academic research with concrete engineering contributions, he operates at the intersection of virtualization, high-performance computing, and real-world deployment.
7 years of coding experience
The University of Manchester
English, Greek
Github Skills (5)
fpga10
opencl10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
jna8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
beehive-lab/TornadoVM
May 2019 - Jan 2023
TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous programming framework for managed languages
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:356 reviews, 686 commits, 89 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thanos's commits focus on adding support for Xilinx FPGAs to the TornadoVM project. Their contributions include modifying OpenCL code to detect Xilinx FPGAs, integrating HLS compilation commands, and implementing kernel linking. They have made changes that involve identifying, and then integrating new code and functionalities to support FPGA technology. The work is primarily within the opencl, and runtime directories.
practicalgpgpumulti-coreprogramming-languagefpga
beehive-lab/tornado-insight
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
TornadoInsight: Unleashing the Power of TornadoVM in IntelliJ IDEA
Contributions:8 releases, 26 reviews, 13 PRs in 10 months
gpuidea-pluginjavatornadovm
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