CIS welcomes new faculty member Associate Professor Yannis Smaragdakis
Associate Professor Yannis Smaragdakis, the CIS department's newest faculty member, specializes in the systems and language side of Software Engineering. His research focuses on programming language tools, including program generators, automatic testing tools, object-oriented middleware and multiparadigm programming. Yannis has developed a number of tools for distributed computing, including the J-Orchestra automatic partitioning system that transforms Java bytecode for distributed execution while preserving the semantics of the original program. Yannis also developed NRMI, Java middleware that makes distributed computing more like local computing, and the GOTECH framework which adds distributed capabilities to existing programs.
Yannis earned his B.S. at the University of Crete in Greece and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to the University of Oregon, Yannis served as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Yannis received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award in 2003 and an NSF ITR Research Grant in 2002. Among his accomplishments are best paper awards at ISSTA 2006, GPCE 2004 and USENIX 1999, and Program co-Chair of GPCE 2003. While at Georgia Tech, Yannis received the 2004 Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from the College of Computing and was honored for his teaching by the Minorities in CS community.
This fall, Yannis is teaching CIS 630, the graduate-level course in Distributed Systems. Spring term, he will teach a new course for undergraduate and graduate students entitled Object-oriented Languages and Systems, which explores the implication of language design for systems structures and vice-versa.
To learn more about Professor Smaragdakis research and teaching, visit his website, or stop by his office in Room 245 Deschutes. If Yannis is not in, you can pause for a moment to enjoy the cartoons on his office door. Welcome Yannis!