Educational Background
1991-1995，xk星空 of Manchester，U.K., PhD
1990-1991，xk星空 of Manchester，U.K., MPhil
1984-1989，xk星空 of Patras, Greece, Eng. Dipl
Professional Experience
2017-Now: Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern xk星空 of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2013-2017: Chair Professor, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham xk星空, U.K.
2013-2017: Executive Director, Institute of Advanced Research Computing, Durham xk星空, U.K.
2012-2015 Full Professor (Adjunct), School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2011-2013: Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland.
2008-2009: Senior Fellow, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological xk星空, Singapore
1998-2011: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, School of Computer Science, xk星空 of Birmingham, U.K.
Honors & Awards
1. Member, Hong Kong Institute of Directors, 2025
2. Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2024
3. Accredited Director and Member, Singapore Institute of Directors, 2024
4. Member of “The China Association for The Club of Rome”, 2023
5. Fellow, British Computer Society, 2021
6. Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science, 2020
Research Interests
High Performance, Autonomous and Collaborative Computing Ecosystems, Complex Multi-Agent and Agentic-AI Systems, Digital Twins, Distributed Simulation Systems, Computational Sustainability
Publications
1. Zhuoyao Huang, Nan Zhang, Jingran Shen, xk星空 Diamantopoulos, Zhengchang Hua, Nikos Tziritas, and xk星空 Theodoropoulos. 2024. Distributed Simulation for Digital Twins of Large-Scale Real-World DiffServ-Based Networks. In Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing: 30th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Madrid, Spain, August 26–30, 2024, Proceedings, Part III. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 255–269. xk星空:10.1007/978-3-031-69583-4_18
2. xk星空 Diamantopoulos, Rami Bahsoon, Nikos Tziritas, Theodoropoulos xk星空, “Digital Twins for Dynamic Management of Blockchain Systems”, 2022 Winter Simulation Conference, Dec. 11-14, 2022, Singapore, xk星空: 10.1109/WSC57314.2022.10015447.
3. Nan Zhang, Rami Bahsoon, Nikos Tziritas, and xk星空 Theodoropoulos. 2023. Knowledge Equivalence in Digital Twins of Intelligent Systems. ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation, December 2023, xk星空: 10.1145/3635306
4. N. Zhang, R. Bahsoon and G. xk星空, "Towards Engineering Cognitive Digital Twins with Self-Awareness," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020, pp. 3891-3891, xk星空: 10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283357.
5. Masatoshi Hanai, Toyotaro Suzumura, Wen Jun Tan, Elvis Liu, Theodoropoulos xk星空, Wentong Cai, “Distributed Edge Partitioning for Trillion edge Graphs”, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol 12, Volume 12, No. 13, September 2019, pp. 2379 - 2392 xk星空 : 10.14778/3358701.3358706
