Panagiota Fatourou is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete and she is affiliated to the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH.

Research Interests

• Algorithms and Complexity
  Design and analysis of algorithms, design and analysis of data structures, lower bounds and impossibility results
• Distributed & Parallel Computing
  Synchronization algorithms, Concurrent Data Structures, Shared Memory Multiprocessing, Multithreaded Computations, Load Balancing, Scheduling
• Communications and Networks
  Algorithms, Protocols, Models, Lower Bounds, communication protocols, internet protocols, peer-to-peer computing
• Experimental Algorithmics
  Implementation and experimental evaluation of algorithms (with emphasis on distributed algorithms, distributed data structures, and peer-to-peer systems).

Participation in Research Projects

I coordinate the following EU-funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network:

• TransForm - Theoretical Foundations of Transactional Memory, Marie-Curie Initial Training Network (job opening)

I contribute to the following projects of the Computer Architecture and VLSI Laboratory of FORTH-ICS:

• CumuloNimbo: A Highly Scalable Transactional Multi-Tier Platform as a Service, FP7 STREP, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-Hellas, 2010-2013
• ENCORE: Enabling technologies for programmable manycores, FP7 IP, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-Hellas, 2010-2013
• HiPEAC: European Network of Excellence in High-Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation, FP7 NoE, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-Hellas
• Herakletos ΙΙ: Reinforcement Programme of Human Research Manpower, General Secretariat of Research & Technology (GSRT), University of Crete, 2010 – 2013
• SARC - Scalable Computer Architecture, FP7 IP, 2006-2009
• STREAM - Scalable Autonomic Streaming Middleware for Real Time Processing of Massive Data Flows, STREP, 2008-2011

Coordination of past project:

• Design and Analysis of Concurrent Data Structures, Research Committee, University of Ioannina, 1/9/2007-28/2/2010

I have been funded by the following projects and grants:

• SARC - Scalable Computer Architecture, FP7 IP, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-Hellas, 2006-2009
• STREAM - Scalable Autonomic Streaming Middleware for Real Time Processing of Massive Data Flows, STREP, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-Hellas, 2008-2011
• MOMENT – Monitoring and Measurement in the Next Generation Technologies, FP7 STREP, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH-Hellas, 2008-2010
• ALCOM-IT, Algorithms and COMplexity on Information Technology, EU FP5 IP, Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece
• EU Project Training Educators through Networks and Distributed Systems (TRENDS), Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece
• "Fundamental Problems in Data Structures and Distributed Computing", Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant, University of Toronto, Canada
• "Fundamental Limitations of Hardware Synchronization Support", Scalable Synchronization Group, Sun Microsystems
• “Theory of Shared-Memory Distributed Computing”, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant, York University, Toronto, Canada
• “Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Computability in Distributed Systems”, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Research Grant, York University, Toronto, Canada

Short CV

Panagiota Fatourou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). Prior to joining the University of Crete and FORTH ICS, she was a full-time faculty member at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Ioannina. The academic years 2000 and 2001, she was a postdoc at Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany, and at the Computer Science Department of the University of Toronto, Canada. She got a degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete, and a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras.

Her research interests focus on the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, lower bounds and impossibility results in distributed and parallel computing, decentralized data structures, concurrent objects, synchronization protocols, communication protocols, internet protocols, peer-to-peer computing, parallel programming languages, multithreaded computing, scheduling and load balancing. P. Fatourou has published her research results in the most prestigious conferences (ACM STOC, ACM PODC, ACM SPAA) and journals (J. of the ACM, SIAM J. on Computing) of her field. She has participated in several projects funded by the EU and she is currently coordinating an EC-funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network, called TransForm. She has repeatedly served as a member of the PC of the most well-known conferences in her field and she is the editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science