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Christos N. Nikolaou

• Re-aligning, re-shaping and integrating research agendas of key European players from diverse research areas and by synthesizing and integrating diversified knowledge, thereby establishing a long-lasting foundation for steering research and for achieving innovation at the highest level.
• Inaugurating a Europe-wide common program of education and training for researchers and industry thereby creating a common culture that will have a profound impact on the future of the field.
• Establishing a pro-active mobility plan to enable cross-fertilisation and thereby fostering the integration of research communities and the establishment of a common software services research culture.
• Establishing trust relationships with industry via European Technology Platforms (specifically NESSI) to achieve a catalytic effect in shaping European research, strengthening industrial competitiveness and addressing main societal challenges.
• Defining a broader research vision and perspective that will shape the software-service based Internet of the future and will accelerate economic growth and improve the living conditions of European citizens.

Christos Nikolaou is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He received a Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in 1979 from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, an MSc degree in Applied Mathematics in 1979 and a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics in 1982, both from Harvard University, USA.

Nikolaou has worked as a strategist, an administrator who promotes innovation, and as an educator and researcher.

As a strategist:

• ISTAG member, September 2007 -

• University Evaluator, European University Association (EUA), September 2006-

• Contribution to the IBM 2006 Global Technology Outlook, as an Academic Visitor at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA (Jan. – Aug. 2005).

• EU Forum on University-based Research member, (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/conferences/2004/univ/followup_en.html).

• Chairman, Greek National Education Council, (Nov. 2003 - October 2004).

• Chairman, Greek Ministry of Education, Strategy Committee on Computers and Telecommunications for Education (2001-2004). Led effort to overhaul ICT higher education in Greece.

As a Manager and Administrator:

• Rector (1999-2004) and Vice-Rector for Financial Planning and Development (1996-1999) of the University of Crete, Greece. During his tenure:

  • Secured funds from various sources (Greek Ministries of Education and Culture, the regional government of Crete, EU Structural Funds, INTERREG, URBAN II and IST) for a massive construction program for the University of Crete.

  • Led innovation initiatives both within the University of Crete and at the Greek National Higher Education level: first mission statement and 10 year strategy plan, first University bylaws, employee incentive and bonus program (based on measurable performance), a nationwide electronic access agreement with major international publishers of scientific journals, tele-education facilities, the University electronic publishing Center started, faculty and students supported to launch high-tech start-up companies, etc.

  • Initiated international cooperation efforts: first European University Association (EUA) evaluation of the U. of Crete conducted and findings acted upon, joint French-Greek Universities Master’s programs launched, etc.

  • Initiated cooperation with the University stakeholders: creation of open door Museum at excavation site of Eleftherna; provision of internet access to primary and secondary education schools in Crete; creation, founding member of the Center for Business and Technology Development of Crete; consultant to all major municipalities of Crete for the construction of broadband networks for services to the citizens and their commercial exploitation, etc.

• 1995-1998: Chairman of the Executive Committee of ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics). Helped launch the IT LTR DELOS Working Group on Digital Libraries and the EU-NSF cooperation project on Digital Libraries.

As a researcher:

• 2006: Founded the Transformation Services Laboratory (TSL) of the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, in order to perform research and provide services for business process and organizational transformation and training (http://www.tsl.gr ). Partner in S-Cube, a Network of Excellence on software, services and systems (ICT, FP7, 2008-2012).

• Jan. to Aug. 2005, and in the summer of 2006: Academic Visitor at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, worked on business transformation models and strategies.

• Coordinator, IST/FET Working Group iTrust (2002 -2005) and Conference Chair for the First (2003) International Conference on Trust Management.

• Head of PLEIADES, a Distributed Systems Laboratory (1994-1999), in the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH.

• Coordinator of LYDIA (ESPRIT Basic Research) (1993-1996) on transaction routing and load balancing, an ESPRIT “success story”. Also coordinator of ΣΚΕΠΣΙΣ, a distributed digital library for university lectures and other related teaching material, IPHIGENIA, a system for organizing material taught over the Web, and the Digital Library of the University of Crete).

• Participated in several ESPRIT projects such as SHIPS and SHIPS software (1992-1995), partner in ΕΠΕΤ ΙΙ ΗλεκτρονικÏŒ ΕμπÏŒριο (Electronic Commerce) (1999-2001), OnTour (ESPRIT, 1998-2001, electronic services for tourism), THETIS (1998-2000), a Telematics for Research project on the development of a Coastal Zone Management System for the Mediterranean Sea, ARION (2001-2003), an IST project on advanced lightweight architectures for accessing scientific collections.

• Chair of the 2nd European Conference on Digital Libraries that took place in September 1998 in Crete.

• 1981-1992: Research Staff Member and then Manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. Research related to resource allocation in high-performance transaction processing systems and highly available computing systems. His work has lead to four US Patents and several awards.
  
  
  

He has worked as a consultant, expert and a project evaluator for the European Commission since 1994. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
He is married and the father of one daughter.

Patents

1. United States Patent 5,191,651: Apparatus and method for making of interconnected processors act like a single node in a multinode communication system

2. United States Patent 5,283,897: Semi-dynamic load balancer for periodically reassigning new transactions of a transaction type from an overload processor to an under-utilized processor based on the predicted load thereof

3. United States Patent 5,504,894: Workload manager for achieving transaction class response time goals in a multiprocessing system

4. United States Patent 5,675,797: Goal-oriented resource allocation manager and performance index technique for servers

Awards

IBM Invention Achievement Award (1992)
IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for Scientific Contributions to Goal-Oriented Workload Management (1993)
IEEE Best Paper Award of the 1st IEEE Int. Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'95, 1995)
Chevalier de l’Ordre de Palmes Academiques, Republique Francaise, 2006.

Languages Spoken: English (excellent), Greek (mother language), French (very good), some German.

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