Teaching – Dr. Kostas Siozios

Gallis Leonidas, “Practice guitar amplifier“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017).
Galanopoulou Stavroula, “Design, Analysis and Implementation of an Analog Musical Instrument (Synthesizer)“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017).
Karagiannidis Pavlos, “Vehicle Implementation with Autonomous Motion and Measurement of Environmental Conditions through Sensing Instruments“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018).
Griva Aikaterini, “Autonomous greenhouse with protection system and water pumping system, using Arduino microcontroller, powered by solar energy“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018).
Constantinos D. Balaskas, “Implementation of Shallow Neural Network for ECG analysis and Heartbeat Classification”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018).
Athanasios Michailoudis, “Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks in Clock Synchronization and Recovery via Optical Systems”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019).
Karkanis Nikolaos, “Security and Alarm System with Arduino”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019).
Chaloulakou Anastasia, “Smart Thermostat: Developing an IoT device using artificial neural networks”, School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019).
Zouloumi Evanthia, “ Function generator”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019).
Karavades Vasilis, “Bluetooth’s signal strength measurement”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Karipidis Savvas, “Description and simulation of a cumulative moving average calculation circuit using VHDL”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Moka Fani, “Implementation of Canny Edge Detection Algorithm in VHDL and Matlab“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Apostolidis Petros, “VHDL code generator for finite state machine applications“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Mattas Athanasios, “Bidirectional k-shortest paths search with dynamic programming“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Michailidis Anastasios, “Digital image processing and noise reduction: VHDL and MATLAB implementation“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Mintsis Dimitris, “Vehicle speed and number measurement system“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Georgios Zaverdinos, “Classification of chest X-ray Images using Convolutional Neural Networks”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Mitsas Dimitris, “Image Processing with VHDL“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Katsoulas Lefteris, “Wireless sampling and representation of temperature and humidity data with ESP32 microcontroller“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Lainas Georgios, “Study of a Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifier“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2022).
Vamvakas Panagiotis, “Shallow Neural Network for ECG Analysis and Classification“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2022).

Graduate Master Theses

Zacharelos Efstratios, “Design and Implementation of a Resampling Circuit – Real-Time Arbitrary Selection of Sample Rate“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019).
Kostas Axiotis, “Hardware Implementation of Wavelet Algorithm with High-Level Synthesis Tools“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Konstantinos Balaskas, “Fatigue Detection Using Deep Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoders“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Sofianidis Ioannis, “Low power mems accelerograph for strong motion seismic activity“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Mplantos Konstantinos, “FPGA Implementation of a high-speed frame buffer for Smartglasses“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020).
Serasidis Vasilis, “Indoor positioning system“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021).
Vaggos Michalis, “IoT system for temperature and humidity monitoring“, Master Thesis in Electronic Physics (RadioElectrology), Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2022).

Available Diploma Theses

The list with available diploma theses can be found here.

PhD Students

Karagiorgos Nikolaos, “Hardware/Software Co-Design for CyberPhysical Systems”, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2018 – now).
Konstantinos Balaskas, “Hardware/Software Methodologies for Accelerating Big Data Analytics“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2020 – now).
Argyrios Kokkinis, “Efficient execution of machine learning applications in the Cloud with hardware accelerators“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021 – now).
Christos Sad, “Methodologies and Software tools for efficient resource management“, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021 – now).

Awards

4th prize at Design Contest during the Asia South Pacific–Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2005 for the hardware design of low-energy reconfigurable architecture AMDREL.
Honorable mention for design contest entry for the design “AMDREL: A novel low-energy FPGA architecture and supporting CAD tool design flow” at 18th Int. Conference on VLSI 2005 regarding the toolset for application implementation onto the AMDREL FPGA device.
Best paper award for the publication H. Sidiropoulos, K. Siozios, P. Figuli, D. Soudris and M. Hubner, “On Supporting Efficient Partial Reconfiguration with Just-In-Time Compilation”, Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW), May 2012, China.
2nd prize at the Cadence Design Contest 2013 regarding the rapid virtual prototyping framework Plug&Chip.
Ericsson Awards of Excellence in Telecommunications” for my diploma thesis entitled “Secure Mobile IP Architecture”.
The MEANDER FPGA Design Framework, which was developed as part of my PhD thesis, was funded by DAAD with 300,000 Euros in order to be extended for educational purposes.

Activities in Conferences & Workshops

Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW)
- 2010
International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED)
- 2011, 2012, 2013
International Workshop on Reconfigurable Computation-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)
- 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
HiPEAC Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing (WRC)
- 2012
IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA)
- 2012
International Workshop on Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures and Algorithms (M2A2)
- 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications (HPCC)
- 2015, 2016
International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)
- 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
International Conference on Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS)
- 2017
International Symposium on Power and Timing (PATMOS)
- 2017, 2018, 2019

Organize Schools

1st Pandora Summer School: “Progression and Diversity of Reconfigurable Architectures and Tools”, 14-19/09/2015, National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.), Greece.
2nd Pandora Summer School: “Progression and Diversity of Reconfigurable Architectures and Tools”, 19-23/09/2016, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (K.I.T.), Germany.
InnoAI – Innovation for Data Era: Power the Era of Artificial Intelligence, 19-21/11/2021, Thessaloniki, Greece (Announcement – Link: https://innoai.web.auth.gr/)
SmartPlant: Technologies for Smart Agriculture in the IoT Era (Link: https://smart-plant.physics.auth.gr/)

Reviewer (Selected Journals and Conferences)

IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI)
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD)
IEEE Access
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
IEEE Embedded System Letters
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Computing (TRETS)
ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems (TECS)
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
Elsevier, Applied Energy
Elsevier, Energy Conversion and Management
Elsevier, Journal of System Architectures (JSA)
Elsevier, Nuclear Engineering and Technology
IET Electronics Letters
Sensors
Energies
VLSI Design, Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers
Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Int. Conf. on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS)
Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS)
International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC)
Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI)
IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC)
International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)