Stavros Nikolaou

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

E-Mail: snikolaou[AT]cs[DOT]cornell[DOT]edu

4162 Upson Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853
Curriculum Vitae (updated February 2013)

About Me

I am a second year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. My research interests lie in Distributed Systems and more specifically in their scalability and self-organization aspects. I am also interested in Algorithms, especially those designed for distributed computation. My advisor is Robbert van Renesse and we are currently working on optimizing cache placement in a client-side caching setting while maintaining the privacy of the clients. My committee also includes  Prof. Johannes Gehrke, Prof. Dexter Kozen and Prof. Éva Tardos. My graduate minor is in Applied Mathematics.
I have worked as a research member at R.A. Computer Technology Institute, Research Unit 1 from 2010-2011. I received my Dimploma in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras, Greece in 2010.


Publications

The Computational Power of Simple Protocols for Self-Awareness on Graphs. SSS 2011.
I. Chatzigiannakis, O. Michail, S. Nikolaou, and P. G. Spirakis.

Passively Mobile Communicating Machines that Use Restricted Space. (Journal Version) TCS, volume 412, number 46, pages 6469-6483, 2011
I. Chatzigiannakis, O. Michail, S. Nikolaou, A. Pavlogiannis, and P. G. Spirakis.

All Symmetric Predicates in NSPACE(n2) are Stably Computable by the Mediated Population Protocol Model. MFCS 2010
I. Chatzigiannakis, O. Michail, S. Nikolaou, A. Pavlogiannis, and P. G. Spirakis.