Collaborating Researcher, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

Research

My research interests revolve around the following areas:

• Distributed computer systems
• Scalable data store technologies
• Cloud computing, lifecycle management of multi-cloud applications
• Distributed service management
• Scalable fault-tolerant stream-processing systems, Internet of Things (IoT)

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This is a partial list of projects I have participated in over the years:

• The STREAMSTORE project (2020-2022) funded by a H.F.R.I. faculty grant, aims to improve the state of the art in elastic, scalable, and highly available stream processing systems
• The ProxiTour project (2018-2021) aims to develop a smart IoT-driven personalized touring platform
• The PaaSage European FP7 collaborative project (2012-2016), which aims to deliver an open and integrated platform to support model based lifecycle management of Cloud applications.
• The ScaleWorks FP7 project (2009-2011) had the objective to improve the entire lifecycle of scalable distributed systems from design to engineering, prototyping, deployment, and operation, on contemporary cost-effective high-performance platforms
• The Galapagos project (2006-2009) at IBM Research contributed a model-based approach to distributed systems management with a focus on data and storage
• Research on the structure and performance of the Direct Access File System (2000-2004) received two best paper awards and helped shape industrial standardization efforts around direct-access (RDMA) interconnects
• The Symposium and Summer School on Service-Oriented Computing, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
• International Master in Services Engineering or IMSE

About

I am an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Crete and collaborating researcher at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). Previously I was a tenured Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Ioannina, Greece (2014-2019), a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY (2003-2009) and taught at Columbia University, NY (2004). Before that I was a graduate student at Harvard where I received my Ph.D. in 2003. I can be contacted via email (use my last name) at ics.forth.gr (professional) or gmail.com (personal).

My postal mail address:

Kostas Magoutis
FORTH-ICS
N. Plastira 100
Heraklion GR-70013
Greece.

My office is Γ-150. Here is information on how to reach ICS-FORTH